Giardia

Definition: Giardia

Giardia

Noun

1. A suspected cause of diarrhea in humans.

Specialty Definitions: Giardia

Domain	Definitions
Health	A genus of flagellate intestinal protozoa parasitic in various vertebrates, including humans. Characteristics include the presence of four pairs of flagella arising from a complicated system of axonemes and cysts that are ellipsoidal to ovoidal in shape. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Giardia

English words defined with "giardia": genus Giardia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "giardia": Causes of gastroenteritis ♦ Giardia lamblia, Giardiavirus ♦ Surface-Water Treatment Rule ♦ Tinidazole. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Giardia

Domain	Title
Books	Cicm 1: 3 Giardia (reference) Evaluation of Antibodies to Cryptosporidium and Giardia Using Flow Cytometry (reference) Filtration of Giardia Cysts and Other Particles Under Treatment Plant Conditions (Research Report / Awwa Research Foundation) (reference) Giardia & Cryptosporidium in Water Supplies (reference) Giardia and Giardiasis: Biology, Pathogenesis, and Epidemiology (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Wonders of Giardia, Vol. 3 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Giardia

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Giardia lamblia cyst. Chlorazol black. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Giardia

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Yes, Giardia can be very contagious. (references)
		Giardia is not spread by contact with blood. (references)
		By eating uncooked food contaminated with Giardia. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Giardia

"Giardia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Giardia" is used about 32 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 (proper)	93.75%	30	63,341
Noun (singular)	6.25%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	32	N/A

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

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Expressions: Giardia

Expressions using "giardia": genus Giardia ♦ Giardia lamblia. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Giardia

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
giardia	524	cycle giardia lamblia life	3
giardia lamblia	91	antigen giardia	3
giardia symptom	27	bird giardia in	3
giardia treatment	20	de epidemiologia giardia intestinalis	3
giardia dog	15	giardia in organic parrot treatment	3
dog giardia in	13	de giardia infeccion mecanismos	2
giardia lambia	12	de giardia lamblia quistes	2
giardia parasite	9	elisa giardia	2
cat giardia in	6	giardia lamblia symptom	2
canine giardia	6	cryptosporidium giardia	2
giardia vaccine	4	giardia picture	2
cure giardia	4	giardia infection	2
cat giardia	4	giardia cyst	2
giardia muris	4	amib giardia	2
giardia metronidazole	3	calcium giardia	2
giardia giardiasis lamblia	3	giardia giardiosis lamblia	2
giardia intestinalis	3	chronic giardia	2
dog giardia treatment	3	en giardia perros	2
		feline giardia	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Giardia

Language		Translations for "giardia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

Dutch		giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

Finnish		giardiaasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis), lambliaasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

French		giardiase (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis), lambliase (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

Greek		γιαρδίαση (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis), λαμβλίαση (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

Italian		giardiasi lambliasi (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ランブル鞭毛虫 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ランブルべ�"もうちゅう. (various references)

Pig Latin		iardiagay

Spanish		giardiasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis), lambliasis (Giardia infection, Giardia lamblia infection, giardiasis). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Giardia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "giardia": giardiases, giardiasis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Giardia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-r"
	-2 letters: agria, radii, rigid.
	-3 letters: agar, aria, arid, drag, gadi, gird, grad, grid, irid, raga, ragi, raia, raid.
	-4 letters: aga, aid, air, dag, dig, gad, gar, gid, rad, rag, ria, rid, rig.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ag, ai, ar, id.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-r"
	+2 letters: garibaldi, radiating.
	+3 letters: diagraming, eradiating, faradising, faradizing, gaillardia, garibaldis, giardiases, giardiasis, marinading, radicating.
	+4 letters: barricading, diagramming, disarraying, disparaging, dramatising, dramatizing, eradicating, gaillardias, handrailing, ingratiated, irradiating, madrigalian, madrigalist, misawarding, plagiarised, plagiarized, railroading, reradiating.
	+5 letters: aggrandising, aggrandizing, barricadoing, bastardising, bastardizing, boardsailing, deracinating, diagrammatic, disappearing, disarranging, divaricating, gladiatorial, guardianship, handrailings, imparadising, madrigalists, marginalized, paradigmatic, quadriplegia, radicalising, radicalizing, radiographic, radiological, railroadings, revalidating, sailboarding.
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