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Definition: Immunodeficiency |
ImmunodeficiencyNoun1. Immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The decreased ability of the body to fight infection and disease. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A family history of primary immunodeficiency. (references) | |
Such an unusual infection may be the tip-off to an immunodeficiency. (references) | ||
Not long ago, little could be done to actually cure an immunodeficiency. (references) | ||
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| "Immunodeficiency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.92% of the time. "Immunodeficiency" is used about 49 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) | 95.92% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "immunodeficiency": Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Common Variable Immunodeficiency ♦ Feline Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ human immunodeficiency virus ♦ human immunodeficiency virus type 1 ♦ human immunodeficiency virus type 2 ♦ immunodeficiency syndrome ♦ Murine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ♦ Severe Combined Immunodeficiency ♦ Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "immunodeficiency": immunodeficiency-related. | |
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| 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 |
immunodeficiency | 18 |
common variable immunodeficiency | 13 |
primary immunodeficiency | 12 |
severe combined immunodeficiency | 7 |
disease immunodeficiency | 5 |
immunodeficiency severe | 5 |
immunodeficiency simian virus | 4 |
immunodeficiency syndrome | 2 |
immunodeficiency disorder | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "immunodeficiency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 免役缺陷. (various references) | |
Danish | immundeficiens (immune deficiency), immundefekt (deficiency disease, immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Dutch | immuundeficiëntie (immune deficiency), gebrek van het immuunsysteem. (various references) | |
Finnish | immuunivajavuustila (immune deficiency), immuunipuutos (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
French | immuno-déficience, déficit immunitaire (immune deficiency), déficience immunitaire (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
German | immunschwäche (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Greek | ανοσολογική ανεπάρκεια (immune deficiency), ανοσοανεπάρκεια (deficiency disease, immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Italian | immunodeficienza (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 免疫不全症 (immunodeficiency disease). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | め"えきふぜ"しょう (immunodeficiency disease). (various references) | |
Korean | 면역 부 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immunodeficiencyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imunodeficiência (immune deficiency), deficiência imunológica (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Russian | мед)иммунодефицит иммунодефицитный. (various references) | |
Spanish | inmunodeficiencia (immune deficiency), deficiencia inmunitaria (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Swedish | immundefekt (immune deficiency), immunbrist (immune deficiency). (various references) | |
Thai | เฮชไอวี (human immunodeficiency virus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Immunodeficiency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: immunodeiciency, immunodifficiency, immunodificiency, immunoefficiency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immunodeficiency" (pronounced i'myuwnōdi'fi"shunsē) |
| 7 | -f i" sh u n s ē | deficiency, efficiency, inefficiency, proficiency, sufficiency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-f-i-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-u-y" | |
-5 letters: munificence. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 75 6E 6F 64 65 66 69 63 69 65 6E 63 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01101111 01100100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m u n o d e f i c i e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 0075 006E 006F 0064 0065 0066 0069 0063 0069 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43797987808170717275697571806991 |
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