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Haemoptysis

Definition: Haemoptysis

Haemoptysis

Noun

1. 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.
 



Specialty Definitions: Haemoptysis

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonym: Haemoptysis

Synonym: hemoptysis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Haemoptysis

Specialty definitions using "haemoptysis": TERMINALIA CATAPPAWALTHERIA INDICA. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Haemoptysis

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Haemoptysis

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

haemoptysis

4
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Modern Translations: Haemoptysis

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.

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Anagrams: Haemoptysis

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Haemoptysis


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

48 61 65 6D 6F 70 74 79 73 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)

01001000 01100001 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110000 01110100 01111001 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0065 006D 006F 0070 0074 0079 0073 0069 0073

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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