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Definitions: Enteric |
EntericAdjective1. Of or relating to the enteron. 2. Of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enteric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Etymology: Enteric \En*ter"ic\, adjective. [from Greek expression. See Enteritis.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EntericSynonyms: enteral (adj), intestinal (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Enteric |
| English words defined with "enteric": enteric bacteria, enteric fever, escherichia ♦ phenyl salicylate, Pituitous fever ♦ salol, Splanchnopleure ♦ typhoid fever. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enteric": Adenoviruses, Simian, Arsanilic Acid ♦ Bacterial Translocation ♦ Campylobacter jejuni, COATER, Coronavirus, Human ♦ enteric colibacillosis of calves, enteric colibacillosis of lambs, enteric colibacillosis of piglets, Enteric fermentation, Enteric Nervous System, Enterobactin ♦ Fournier Gangrene ♦ pill coater, Prephenate Dehydratase, Prephenate Dehydrogenase ♦ Salmonella arizonae, Salmonella schottmuelleri, Sulfaguanidine ♦ tablet coater, Torovirus, Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "enteric": Neurenteric. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Enteric" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (enteric). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | This woman suffers from enteric disease ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Larsen.. |
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Health | These new organisms often include the potential enteric pathogens. (references) | |
Enteric adenoviruses 40 and 41 cause gastroenteritis, usually in children. (references) | ||
Besides ETEC and other bacterial pathogens, a variety of viral and parasitic enteric pathogens also are potential causative agents. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Enteric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.55% of the time. "Enteric" is used about 69 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.55% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "enteric": enteric bacteria ♦ enteric colibacillosis of calves ♦ enteric colibacillosis of lambs ♦ enteric colibacillosis of piglets ♦ enteric fever ♦ Enteric Nervous System ♦ Extra Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC] ♦ Regular Strength Bayer Enteric 500 Aspirin [OTC]. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "enteric": enteric-coated, enteric-coated aspirin. | |
Ending with "enteric": gastro-enteric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
enteric | 12 |
coating enteric | 8 |
enteric coated aspirin | 7 |
enteric nervous system | 7 |
enteric fever | 5 |
enteric aspirin | 5 |
enteric coated | 5 |
enteric coated peppermint oil | 5 |
bacterium enteric | 3 |
enteric pathogens | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "enteric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zorrëve (intestinal), i barkut (abdominal, antenatal, ventral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чревен (intestinal, splanchnic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | střevní (intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | enterovirus (enteric viruses), tyndtarmsfordoejelse (enteric digestion), tarmkanalvirus (enteric viruses), syreresistente præparat (enteric-coated preparation), syreresistent praeparat (enteric-coated preparation), rødmundssyge (enteric redmouth disease), plexus entericus (enteric plexus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | enteric virusen (enteric viruses), zuurvast preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), zuurresistent preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), zuurbestendig preparaat (enteric-coated preparation), vertering in de dunne darm (enteric digestion), gastro-intestinale tuberculose (enteric tuberculosis), acidoresistent preparaat (enteric-coated preparation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | امعاءی (Intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | enterovirus (enteric viruses), ruuansulatuselinten tuberkuloosi (enteric tuberculosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entérique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | darm- (intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εντερικόσ (intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bél- (iliac, intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tentang isi perut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | enterico, intestinale (intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | 'sy vinnagh, minnaghoil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entericay encetar (start). (various references) enteric. (various references) кишечный (intestinal), брюшной (abdominal, ventral), интестинальный. (various references) enteričan. (various references) entérico. (various references) tarm- (intestinal), inälvs- (intestinal). (various references) เกี่ยวกับลำไส้. (various references) ince bağırsak iltihabına ait, bağırsaklara ait (intestinal), bağırsak (bowel, bowels, enteron, gastral, gut, ileo-, intestinal, intestine). (various references) черевний (abdominal, coeliac, ventral), кишковий (intestinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "enteric": dysenteric, mesenteric. (additional references) | |
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"Enteric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enteren, enteria, enteris, entero, entery, entetis, enverist, esteric, Estorick, lentheric, Menteri, oneiric, Pendreich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "enteric" (pronounced 'En*ter"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enticer. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, recent, recite, retine, tenrec, tierce, triene. | |
-2 letters: citer, enter, erect, inert, inter, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, recti, rente, retie, terce, terne, treen, trice, trine. | |
-3 letters: cent, cere, cete, cine, cire, cite, erne, etic, nice, nite, rein, rent, rete, rice, rite, teen, tern, tier, tine, tire, tree. | |
-4 letters: cee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ceinture, centiare, creatine, enticers, enuretic, erecting, erection, frenetic, gentrice, incenter, increate, infecter, iterance, neoteric, prentice, reincite, reinfect, reinject, reticent, secretin, terpenic. | |
+2 letters: ancienter, ceintures, centering, centiares, centriole, centuries, certainer, cisternae, creatines, eccentric, energetic, enuretics, epicenter, erections, excreting, excretion, frenetics, gentrices, incenters, increment, infecters, intercede, intercell, intercept, interface, interject, interlace, intersect, iterances, nectaries, nectarine, neoterics, phrenetic, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, quercetin, reception, recipient, recondite, refecting, refection, reincited, reincites, reinfects, reinjects, reinspect, rejecting, rejection, renitency, resecting, resection, reticence, reticency, secreting, secretins, secretion, sincerest, stenchier, stenciler, stridence, thickener, ventricle, virescent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6E 74 65 72 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -. - . .-. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t e r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39808671847569 |
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