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Definition: Endometriosis |
EndometriosisNoun1. The presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A condition in which tissue more or less perfectly resembling the uterine mucous membrane (the endometrium) and containing typical endometrial granular and stromal elements occurs aberrantly in various locations in the pelvic cavity. (references) |
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Synonym: EndometriosisSynonym: adenomyosis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Endometriosis |
| English words defined with "endometriosis": norethandrolone, norethindrone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin ♦ secondary dysmenorrhea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "endometriosis": Danazol ♦ Levonorgestrel ♦ Nafarelin ♦ Triptorelin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Endometriosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Danish (endometriosis). |
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Health | The cause of endometriosis is still unknown. (references) | |
Endometriosis is a common yet poorly understood disease. (references) | ||
Physicians may use stages to describe the severity of endometriosis. (references) | ||
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| "Endometriosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endometriosis" is used about 71 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% | 71 | 39,674 |
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 "endometriosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | endometriosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | endometriose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | munasarjan endometrioosi (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | endométriose (f). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Endometriose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωοθηκική ενδομητρίωση (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis), ευθυμητρικό κόλπωμα του Douglas (endometriosis of Douglas pouch), αδενοματώδης ωοθηκική ενδομητρίωση (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis), οπίσθειος "ουγλάσειος χώρος (endometriosis of Douglas pouch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | endometriosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | endometriosisay endometriose. (various references) endometriosis ovárica (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis), endometriosis del fondo de saco de Douglas (endometriosis of Douglas pouch), adenoma endometrioide del ovario (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis). (various references) ovariell endometrios (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis), chokladcysta (adenoma endometrioides ovarii, ovarian endometriosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Endometriosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: endometiosis, endometreosis, endo-metriosis, endometriousis, endometrisis, endometrosis, endometryosis, endomitriosis, endomytriosis, endrometriosis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "endometriosis" (pronounced e'ndōme'trēō"si's) |
| 4 | -ō" s i' s | asbestosis, osmosis, osteoporosis. |
| 3 | -s i' s | basis, Cassis, electrophoresis, emphasis, lexis, lysis, oasis, paralysis, parenthesis, pertussis, praxis, Pyxis, sepsis, Telesis. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: dosimetries, endomitoses, endomitosis, misoriented, modernities. | |
-3 letters: desertions, disorients, dosimeters, enormities, isometries, meteoroids, midstories, ministered, misentries, misorients, modernises, modernists, moisteners, monitories, monoesters, moronities, morosities, nodosities, odometries, reeditions, reemission, remoistens, rootedness, sonorities. | |
-4 letters: demission, demonises, demonists, demotions, densities, derisions, desertion, destinies, dirtiness, disinters, disorient, dissenter, domineers, doomsters, dosimeter, emersions, endosomes, entoderms, indorsees, ironsides, isonomies, mesotrons, mestinoes, meteoroid, ministers, misenters, misinters, misorient, missioned, missioner, missorted, modernest, modernise, modernist, modesties, moistened, moistener, monetised, monetises, monitored, monodists, monoester, moodiness, moonrises, moonseeds, motioners, motorised, motorises, odometers, oestrones, reedition, remission, remoisten, remotions, residents, resinoids, retinoids, roominess, sediments, seditions, semitones, serotines, siderites, sodomites, timidness, tiredness, trisomies. | |
-5 letters: demerits, demetons, demoness, demonise, demonist, demotion, derision, dermises, destines, dieresis, diesters, dimeters, diorites, direness, diriment, disinter, disroots, distomes, domineer, dominies, dominoes, doomster, dormient, dosseret, editions, editress, emeroids, emersion, emission, emotions, endorses, endosmos, endosome, enmities, enrooted, entoderm, erosions, erotisms, essonite, estrones, inditers, indorsee, indorses, inosites, inserted, insiders, insisted, insister, interims, ionomers, ironists, ironside, isotones, itemised, itemises, mentored, mesotron, mestinos, midirons, mindsets, minister, minsters, miriness, misdoers, misedits, misenter, miseries, misinter, missteer, mistends, modernes, modester, modistes, moidores, moieties, moistens, monetise, monitors, monodies, monodist, monsters, monteros, moodiest, mooniest, moonrise, moonseed, moonsets, mooriest, mordents, mortised, mortises, motioned, motioner, motorise, nerdiest, niteries, nitrides, noisiest, odometer, oersteds, oestrins, oestrone, omission, oneriest, oriented, osteoids, ostomies, reminted, remotion, resident, resinoid, resisted, retinoid, riminess, roomiest, sediment, sedition, semitone, sentimos, sentries, serotine, siderite, sienites, simonies, simonist, sinister, sintered, sistered, sistroid, snootier, sodomies, sodomist, sodomite, someones, somerset, sordines, stenosed, steroids, tidiness, tiresome, torsions, trendies, trimness, trisemes, trisomes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+5 letters: microdensitometers. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01100100 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n d o m e t r i o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0064 006F 006D 0065 0074 0072 0069 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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