Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Favism |
FavismNoun1. Anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Favism" is a common misspelling or typo for: fauvism. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Hemolytic anemia due to the ingestion of fava beans or after inhalation of pollen from the Vicia fava plant by persons with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient erythrocytes. (references) |
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 |
favism | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "favism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蚕豆病. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | favisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | inhalatiefabisme (airborne favism, inhalational favism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | favisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Favismus, Fabismus, Glukose-6- phosphat-dehydrogenase-Inaktivität, Cipriani-Krankheit, Bohnenkrankheit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυαμισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | favismo per inalazione (airborne favism, inhalational favism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avismfay favismo. (various references) fabismo (lathyrism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "favism": favisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-m-s-v" | |
-1 letter: mavis. | |
-2 letters: aims, amis, sima, vims, visa. | |
-3 letters: aim, ais, ami, fas, ifs, ism, mas, mis, sim, vas, via, vim, vis. | |
-4 letters: ai, am, as, fa, if, is, ma, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-m-s-v" | |
+1 letter: fauvism, favisms. | |
+2 letters: fauvisms, vasiform. | |
+3 letters: farmwives. | |
+4 letters: favoritism, formatives. | |
+5 letters: favoritisms. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 76 69 73 6D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- ...- .. ... -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a v i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0076 0069 0073 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406788758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
