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Definition: Haemoptysis |
HaemoptysisNoun1. Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract; usually indicates a severe infection of the bronchi or lungs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Botanical | Spitting of blood. Anacardium, Carica, Musa, Portulaca, Terminalia, Waltheria. (references) |
Health | The expectoration of blood or of blood-stained sputum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: HaemoptysisSynonym: hemoptysis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Haemoptysis |
| Specialty definitions using "haemoptysis": TERMINALIA CATAPPA ♦ WALTHERIA INDICA. (references) |
| "Haemoptysis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Haemoptysis" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
haemoptysis | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "haemoptysis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | haemoptyse, haemoptoë, hæmoptyse. (various references) | |
Dutch | hemoptoë, haemorrhagia pulmonalis, haemoptysis, haemoptoe, pneumorrhagia, pneumorragie, longbloeding, bloedhoesten. (various references) | |
French | hémoptysie. (various references) | |
German | Haemorrhagia pulmonalis, Haemoptysis, Hämoptyse, Hämoptoe, Hämoptoe, Lungenbluten, Blutsturz (hemoptoe, violent hemoptysis), Blutspucken, Bluthusten, Blutauswurf. (various references) | |
Greek | αιμόπτυση. (various references) | |
Italian | emottisi (hemoptysis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aemoptysishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemoptise (hemoptoe, violent hemoptysis). (various references) | |
Spanish | hemoptisis (hemoptoe, violent hemoptysis). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bệnh ho ra máu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: hemoptysis, myopathies, sympathies, sympathise. | |
-2 letters: homestays, mateships, shipmates, steamship. | |
-3 letters: amitoses, amosites, apothems, atheisms, atomises, emphasis, epistasy, homestay, impastes, impastos, isohyets, isotypes, mateship, misshape, mistypes, pastimes, pathoses, phimoses, potashes, shipmate, soapiest, spathose, symposia, teashops. | |
-4 letters: amosite, aphesis, apothem, ashiest, atheism, atomies, atomise, atopies, empathy, homiest, impasse, impaste, impasto, imposes, imposts, isohyet, isotype, mashies, messiah, miseats, mishaps, misseat, misstep, misstop, mistype, mitoses, mopiest, myiases, myopias, myopies, ophites, opiates, optimes, pasties, pastime, patsies, petasos, petsais, poshest, potsies, pyemias, samites, sapotes, shamois, shamoys, somites, sophies, sophism, sophist, sopites, spathes, stymies, tamises, tapises, teapoys, teashop, theisms, typhose. | |
-5 letters: aspish, estops, hastes, heists, hoises, hoists, hostas, hyssop, impose, impost, mahoes, maists, mashes, mashie, mateys, mayest, mioses, misate, miseat, mishap, missay, misset, moiety, mopish, moseys, moshes, myases, myasis, myopes, myopia, myoses, myosis, mysost, mythoi, mythos, ophite, opiate, optima, optime, paseos, pashes, passim, pastes, pastie, pastis, pathos, patios, patois, pestos, petsai, phases, phasis, physes, physis, pietas, pishes, pistes, poises, poisha, posies, posits, posset, potash, potsie, ptoses, ptosis, pyemia, pyoses, pyosis, saithe, samite, sapote, sayest, sepias, sepoys, shames, shamos, shamoy, shapes, shiest, shmoes, shoats, shotes, shyest, siesta, smites, smiths, smithy, somite, sopite, spahis, spaits, spates, spathe, spites, stamps, stapes, staphs, steams, steamy, stimes, stipes, stomas, stomps, stopes, stymie, system, tassie, teapoy, tempos, tepoys, theism, thesis, thymes, tmesis, tophes, toshes, toyish, yeasts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-o-p-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: scyphistomae. | |
+3 letters: amphiprostyles. | |
+4 letters: sympathectomies. | |
+5 letters: hypercatabolisms, hypermetabolisms, hypervitaminoses, hypervitaminosis, metapsychologies, psychometricians, sympathomimetics. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110000 01110100 01111001 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a e m o p t y s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0065 006D 006F 0070 0074 0079 0073 0069 0073 |
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