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IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

Specialty Definition: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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Health

Having a weakened immune system caused by certain diseases or treatments. (references)

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

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Crosswords: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

Specialty definitions using "IMMUNOCOMPROMISED": Angiomatosis, BacillaryPatient Isolators, Pneumocystis carinii Infections. (references)

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Commercial Usage: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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Books

  • Approach to Pulmonary Infections in the Immunocompromised Host (reference)

  • Cancer in the Immunocompromised Patient (reference)

  • Clinical Management of Infections in Immunocompromised Infants and Children (reference)

  • Ct of the Immunocompromised Host (Contemporary Issues in Computed Tomography, Vol 14) (reference)

  • Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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This microscopic fungus, seen here using Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA) microscopy, is arguably the most important cause of pneumonia in the immunocompromised host, such as an individual with AIDS. Credit: CDC.

Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive diplococcal organism, usually affecting the debilitated, elderly or the immunocompromised individual, and is often responsible for nosocomial infections acquired during lengthy hospital stays. Credit: CDC.

Pulmonary pneumocystosis, caused by the bacterium Pneumocystis carinii, is a lung infection often found afflicting humans who are immunocompromised due to AIDS, or the use of chemotherapy. Credit: CDC.

P. carinii is the causal agent of a severe pneumonitis, resulting from the proliferation of this fungus in the lungs of immunocompromised patients. Pneumocystis carinii is a major cause of death in AIDS patients. Credit: CDC.

Mucormycosis is a dangerous fungal infection usually occurring in the immunocompromised patient, affecting the regions of the eye, nose, and through its growth and destruction of the periorbital tissues, it will eventually invade the brain cavity. Credit: CDC.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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Health

EAggEC are most common among immunocompromised persons. (references)

Defining risk factors for disease in immunocompromised persons. (references)

Most of these infections are asymptomatic except among immunocompromised people. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

"IMMUNOCOMPROMISED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "IMMUNOCOMPROMISED" is used about 11 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
Adjective (general or positive)90.91%10111,207
Lexical Verb (past participle)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Expression: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

Expression using "IMMUNOCOMPROMISED": Immunocompromised Host. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "IMMUNOCOMPROMISED": non-immunocompromised.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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

immunocompromised

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

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

Danish

  

immunsvækket værtsorganisme (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host), immunsvækket patient (immunocompromised patient). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

immunologisch verzwakt subject (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

French

  

hôte immunocompromis (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

German

  

immungeschwächter Wirt (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανοσοκατεσταλμένος ξενιστής (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ospite immunocompromesso (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

immunocompromiseday

   

Portuguese

  

hospedeiro imunodeprimido (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hospedador con inmunidad comprometida (immunocompromised host, immunocompromized host). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-m-m-m-m-n-o-o-o-p-r-s-u"

-5 letters: incommodious.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IMMUNOCOMPROMISED


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

49 4D 4D 55 4E 4F 43 4F 4D 50 52 4F 4D 49 53 45 44

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)

01001001 01001101 01001101 01010101 01001110 01001111 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01010011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 004D 0055 004E 004F 0043 004F 004D 0050 0052 004F 004D 0049 0053 0045 0044

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

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

4347475548493749475052494743533938

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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