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Definition: Diverticulitis |
DiverticulitisNoun1. Inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of a diverticulum or diverticula. (references) |
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Crosswords: Diverticulitis |
| English words defined with "diverticulitis": constipation ♦ irregularity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Diverticulitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (diverticulitis), Dutch (diverticulitis). |
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Health | An attack of diverticulitis can develop suddenly and without warning. (references) | |
When the pouches become infected or inflamed, the condition is called diverticulitis. (references) | ||
The infection causing diverticulitis often clears up after a few days of treatment with antibiotics. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Diverticulitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Diverticulitis" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "diverticulitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 憩室炎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | divertikulitis, diverticulitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | diverticulitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sigmasuolen divertikuliitti (sigmoid diverticulitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | diverticulite (f), inflammation d'un diverticule. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Divertikulitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκκολπωματίτις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | diverticolite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iverticulitisday diverticulite. (various references) diverticulitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "diverticulitis": diverticulitises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-i-l-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-3 letters: ductilities. | |
-4 letters: civilities, lividities, lucidities, recidivist, viridities, virilities. | |
-5 letters: civilised, crudities, diuretics, ridicules, utilities, verticils, viduities, viricides, virucides. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-i-l-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: diverticulitises. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 65 72 74 69 63 75 6C 69 74 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ...- . .-. - .. -.-. ..- .-.. .. - .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v e r t i c u l i t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0065 0072 0074 0069 0063 0075 006C 0069 0074 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875887184867569877875867585 |
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