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Enteritis

Definition: Enteritis

Enteritis

Noun

1. Inflammation of the intestine (especially the small intestine); usually characterized by diarrhea.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Enteritis \En`te*ri"tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression an intestine -itis.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Enteritis

DomainDefinitions

Botanical

Inflammation of the intestinal tract by infectionor irritating foods. Treated with Carica, Cassia, Centrosema, Coleus, Elytraria, Lantana, Lippia, Peperomia, Pseudelephantopus, Sida, Spigelia, Tecoma, Terminalia, Zingiber. (references)

Health

Inflammation of the intestine, applied chiefly to inflammation of the small intestine; see also enterocolitis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Enteritis

English words defined with "enteritis": infliximabnecrotizing enteritisregional enteritis, Remicade, reovirus, rotavirus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "enteritis": calf scours, Campylobacter jejuni, Clostridium perfringens type B infection, Coronavirus Infections, Coronavirus, Turkeyenteric colibacillosis of calves, enteric colibacillosis of lambs, enteric colibacillosis of piglets, Enteritis, Transmissible, of TurkeysFeline Infectious Enteritis, Feline PanleukopeniaGranulomatous Enteritisinfectious enteritislamb dysenteryPanleucopenia, Parvovirus, Canine, Parvovirus, Feline, Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants Virus, piglet diarrhoea, piglet scoursSulfaquinoxalineVibrio parahaemolyticuswhite scours. (references)
Etymologies containing "enteritis": Enteric. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Enteritis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (enteritis), Dutch (enteritis), German (enteritis, small intestine inflammation), Manx (enteritis), Serbo-Croatian (enteritis), Spanish (enteritis).

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Commercial Usage: Enteritis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Histopathologic spectrum of regional enteritis and ulcerative colitis (reference)

  • Intestinal Inflammation (Colitis, Enteritis, Crohn's Disease): Treatment & Therapy Index of New Information (reference)

  • PIGBEL, necrotising enteritis in Papua New Guinea : Proceedings of a workshop held in Goroka, Papua New Guinea, September 2-5, 1980 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Enteritis

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Crohn's disease may also be called ileitis or enteritis. (references)

Chronic radiation effects, although infrequent, can be severe, including radiation enteritis and bowel obstruction, because tumoricidal doses (45-55 Gy) of radiation are necessary. (references)

The known risks include allergic and other side effects (such as common skin rashes, photosensitivity of the skin, blood disorders, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and staining of the teeth in children) as well as other infections that may be induced by antimicrobial therapy (such as antibiotic-associated colitis, Candida vaginitis, and possibly salmonella enteritis). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Enteritis

"Enteritis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Enteritis" is used about 64 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6442,009

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Enteritis

Expressions using "enteritis": Feline Infectious Enteritis Granulomatous Enteritis infectious enteritis necrotizing enteritis regional enteritis. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "enteritis": gastro-enteritis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enteritis

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

enteritis

38

gastro enteritis

8

radiation enteritis

7

regional enteritis

7

salmonella enteritis

6

enteritis staphylococcal

5

campylobacter diagnosis enteritis jejuni

5

enteritis eosinophilic

3

enteritis feline

3

enteritis necrotic

3

canine enteritis

3

bacterial enteritis

2

acute enteritis viral

2

en enteritis equinos proximal

2

enteritis viral

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enteritis

Language Translations for "enteritis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

enterit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بادئة معناها معي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ентерит. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zánìt střev (colitis). (various references)

   

Danish

  

enteritis. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

enteritis. (various references)

   

French

  

entérite. (various references)

   

German

  

Enteritis (small intestine inflammation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αμοιβαδική εντερίτιδα (amoebic enteritis). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"לקת "מעים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bélgyulladás (coccidiosis). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penyakit radang perut. (various references)

   

Italian

  

enterite (small intestine inflammation). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

腸炎 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょうえ" (ellipse, oval). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

장염. (various references)

   

Manx

  

enteritis. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tarmbetennelse. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enteritisay

   

Portuguese

  

enterite (enterprise), entérico. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

enteritã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

энтерит. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

enteritis. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enteritis. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

enterit, tarminflammation. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

enterit, ince bağırsak iltihabı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ентерит. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

viêm ruột non. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enteritis

Derivations

Words beginning with "enteritis": enteritises. (additional references)

Words ending with "enteritis": gastroenteritis. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enteritis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enteridis, enteritic, entritis, Heterotis, osteitis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Enteritis"

Words rhyming with "enteritis" (pronounced 'En`te*ri"tis'): Adenitis, Aortitis, Appendicitis, Arachnitis, Arteritis, Arthritis, Arthrochondritis, Blepharitis, Bronchitis, Bursitis, Capsulitis, Carditis, Cellulitis, Cerebritis, Cholecystis, Chondritis, Colitis, Colonitis, Compos-mentis, Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Dactylitis, Dermatitis, Encephalitis, Endocarditis, Endometritis, Epididymitis, Epiglottis, Fetis, gastritis, Gastroduodenitis, gastroenteritis, Glossitis, Glottis, Gratis, hepatitis, iritis, -itis, keratitis, laminitis, laryngitis, leptomeningitis, lymphadenitis, Lymphangeitis, Macrocystis, mantis, mastitis, meningitis, Mephitis, metritis. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Enteritis

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: interties, retinites.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: entities, insetter, interest, intertie, niteries, nitrites, retinite, sternite, trientes.

-2 letters: entires, entries, netters, nettier, niterie, nitrite, nittier, retines, retints, sienite, stinter, tenters, tentier, testier, tiniest, tinters, trienes.

-3 letters: enters, entire, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, nereis, nester, netter, niters, nitres, renest, rentes, resent, resite, retest, reties, retine, retint, seiner, seniti, serein, serine, setter, sinter.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: entireties, eternities, interstice, itinerates, winteriest.

 

+2 letters: centiliters, certainties, dentistries, determinist, disinterest, enteritides, enteritises, integrities, interesting, interstices, intertwines, investiture, irredentist, jitteriness, maternities, notorieties, paternities, petitioners, reinitiates, reinstitute, repetitions, retinitides, trinketries, wintertides, wintertimes.

 

+3 letters: centralities, centricities, determinists, disintegrate, disinterests, disinterment, disorientate, endometritis, fraternities, grittinesses, incertitudes, intermitters, intersecting, intersection, intersociety, intersterile, intertwisted, investitures, irredentists, misinterpret, neutralities, quaternities, receptionist, reestimating, reinstituted, reinstitutes, reiterations, repristinate, sempiternity, stationeries, tensiometric, vinaigrettes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Enteritis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6E 74 65 72 69 74 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0069 0074 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

398086718475867585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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