Leptospirosis

Definition: Leptospirosis

Leptospirosis

Noun

1. An infectious disease cause by leptospira and transmitted to humans from domestic animals; characterized by jaundice and fever.

Specialty Definitions: Leptospirosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	Infections with bacteria of the genus Leptospira. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Leptospirosis

Synonym: swamp fever (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leptospirosis

English words defined with "leptospirosis": Weil's disease. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Leptospirosis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (leptospirosis).

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Commercial Usage: Leptospirosis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Leptospirosis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Guidelines for the control of leptospirosis (reference) Leptospirosis, Anthrax, Mulut & Kuku, Sapi Gila: Waspadailah Akibatnya! (reference) Present State of Leptospirosis Diagnosis and Control (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Leptospirosis

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	Patient died of leptospirosis.Credit: CDC.		This specimen was from a patient who died of Leptospirosis, a disease with symptoms including high fever, severe headache, chills, muscle aches, and vomiting, and may include jaundice (yellow skin and eyes), red eyes, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or a rash.Credit: CDC.
	Leptospira bacteria, FA stain of liver impression smear from patient who died of leptospirosis.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Leptospirosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Get your pet vaccinated against leptospirosis. (references)
		Yes, leptospirosis is treatable with antibiotics. (references)
		Tappero JW, Ashford DA, Perkins BA. Leptospirosis. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Leptospirosis

"Leptospirosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leptospirosis" 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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leptospirosis

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
leptospirosis	228
canine leptospirosis	10
dog leptospirosis	4
control leptospirosis prevencion y	4
dog in leptospirosis	4
equine leptospirosis	3
human leptospirosis	3
diagnostico leptospirosis tratamiento y	2
leptospirosis symptom	2
leptospirosis photograph	2
image leptospirosis	2
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Modern Translations: Leptospirosis

Language		Translations for "leptospirosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		leptospirose. (various references)

Dutch		leptospirosis, leptospirose. (various references)

Finnish		leptospiroosi (infectious icterus, Weil's disease). (various references)

French		leptospirose, maladie des égoutiers. (various references)

German		Leptospirosis. (various references)

Greek		λεπτοσπειρώσεις, λεπτοσπίρωση. (various references)

Italian		leptospirosi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		レプトス�"ラ症 (lepra, level, lowering the level, paper, proceed to the next level, raising the level of, replica, report, reporter, revolt, revolution, revolver). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		レプトス�"ラしょう. (various references)

Pig Latin		eptospirosislay

Portuguese		leptospirose, no cão:tifo canino, icterícia infecciosa (infectious icterus, Weil's disease), doença de Weil (infectious icterus, Weil's disease), doença de Stuttgard. (various references)

Spanish		leptospirosis. (various references)

Swedish		leptospiros. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Leptospirosis

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	leptospirosis, nosogenum:Leptospira spp.(Spirochaetae). (various references)
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Anagrams: Leptospirosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: spoilsports.
	-3 letters: isospories, isotropies, porosities, propolises, spiritless, spoilsport.
	-4 letters: isotopies, oestriols, opposites, pisolites, porpoises, prissiest, prolepsis, propositi, proptoses, proptosis, rippliest, slippiest, sloppiest, solipsist, spiritoso, stipplers.
	-5 letters: estriols, isotopes, lippiest, loopiest, loppiest, oestriol, opposers, opposite, osteosis, ostioles, persists, pisolite, pissoirs, pistoles, pitiless, plessors, poitrels, polities, poloists, porpoise, portless, presplit, prissies, propolis, proposes, prosiest, prossies, prosties.
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