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Klebsiella

Definition: Klebsiella

Klebsiella

Noun

1. A genus of nonmotile rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections.

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Specialty Definitions: Klebsiella

DomainDefinitions

Health

A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria whose organisms arrange singly, in pairs, or short chains. This genus is commonly found in the intestinal tract and is an opportunistic pathogen that can give rise to bacteremia, pneumonia, urinary tract and several other types of human infection. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Klebsiella

English words defined with "klebsiella": genus Klebsiella. (references)
Specialty definitions using "klebsiella": Enterobacter aerogenesKlebsiella Infections, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Klebsiella

"Klebsiella" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Klebsiella" is used about 6 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)66.67%4175,879
Noun (proper)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Expressions: Klebsiella

Expressions using "klebsiella": genus Klebsiella Klebsiella Infections Klebsiella pneumoniae Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Klebsiella

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

klebsiella

101

klebsiella pneumoniae

70

klebsiella pneumonia

25

klebsiella oxytoca

20

klebsiella bacterium

10

k klebsiella pneumoniae

4

klebsiella spp

3

klebsiella ozaenae

3

klebsiella onion

2

bird klebsiella

2

klebsiella pneumonie

2
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Modern Translations: Klebsiella

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

Danish

  

klebsiella-bronchitis (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

   

French

  

Klebsiella planticola (Klebsiella planticola), bronchite klebsiella (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

   

German

  

Klebsiellabronchitis (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βρογχίτις-Klebsiella (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ebsiellaklay

   

Portuguese

  

bronquite por klepsiella (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bronquitis producida por klebsiella (klebsiella bronchitis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Klebsiella

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Klebsiella planticola. (various references)

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Derivations: Klebsiella

Derivations

Words beginning with "klebsiella": klebsiellas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Klebsiella

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-k-l-l-l-s"

-2 letters: likeable, seallike, sellable, slablike.

-3 letters: alleles, bailees, ballies, bellies, kellies, likable, skiable.

-4 letters: abeles, abseil, alible, alkies, allees, allele, allies, alsike, bailee, belies, belike, belles, bleaks, kiblas, labels, labile, liable, libels.

-5 letters: abele, ables, aisle, akees, alike, allee, bails, bakes, bales, balks, balls, basil, beaks, belie, belle, bells, bikes, biles, bilks, bills, blase, bleak.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-i-k-l-l-l-s"
 

+1 letter: klebsiellas.

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Alternative Orthography: Klebsiella


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

4B 6C 65 62 73 69 65 6C 6C 61

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)

01001011 01101100 01100101 01100010 01110011 01101001 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 006C 0065 0062 0073 0069 0065 006C 006C 0061

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

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

45787168857571787867

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Klebsiella"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dinamarquês, danés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francês, francés

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, alemão, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, grego, griego

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, português, portugués

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, espanhol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

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


  

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