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MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE

Specialty Definition: MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE

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Health

A disease that occurs primarily in children and young adults. Over time, inflammation leads to scarring in the glomeruli, causing proteinuria, hematuria, and sometimes chronic renal failure or end-stage renal disease. (references)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE

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Health

The two most common diseases that damage these tiny filtering units are focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN). Very rarely, a child may be born with a condition that causes the nephrotic syndrome (congenital nephropathy). (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE

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

glomerulonephritis membranoproliferative

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE


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

4D 45 4D 42 52 41 4E 4F 50 52 4F 4C 49 46 45 52 41 54 49 56 45

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)

01001101 01000101 01001101 01000010 01010010 01000001 01001110 01001111 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#77 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#79 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#70 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 004D 0042 0052 0041 004E 004F 0050 0052 004F 004C 0049 0046 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

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

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

473947365235484950524946434039523554435639

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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