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Mongolism

Definition: Mongolism

Mongolism

Noun

1. A congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Mongolism

Synonyms: mongolianism (n), trisomy 21 (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mongolism

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

Romanian (mongolism).

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Modern Usage: Mongolism

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ladies and gentlemen, because of the controversy already aroused, the producers of this film wish to re-emphasize what is already stated in the film, that there is no established scientific connection between Mongolism and psychotic or criminal behavior. (Twisted Nerve; writing credit: Roy Boulting; Leo Marks)

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

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Commercial Usage: Mongolism

DomainTitle

Books

  • Down's Syndrome: Mongolism and Its Management (reference)

  • Down's Syndrome: The Psychology of Mongolism (reference)

  • Epidemiology of Mongolism (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Mongolism

"Mongolism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mongolism" is used about 5 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)100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mongolism

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

mongolism

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mongolism

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

Chinese 

  

先天愚型 (mongolianism). (various references)

   

Danish

  

translokationsmongolisme (translocation mongolism), Down's syndrom (Kalmuk idiocy, Mongolian idiocy, mongolianism, translocation mongolism). (various references)

   

French

  

mongolisme par translocation (translocation mongolism). (various references)

   

German

  

Translokationsmongolismus (translocation mongolism), Down-Syndrom (Kalmuk idiocy, Mongolian idiocy, mongolianism, translocation mongolism). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mongolizmus, down-kór. (various references)

   

Italian

  

mongolismo (Kalmuk idiocy, Mongolian idiocy, mongolianism, translocation mongolism). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

モロッコ革 (Mongol, monk, monkey, monkey banana, monkey business, monkey pox, monkey spanner, monkey wrench, monsoon, morocco leather, my dear). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

モンゴリズ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ongolismmay

   

Romanian

  

mongolism. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mongolizm, kafa şekil bozukluğu ve zekâ geriliği hastalığı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mongolism

Derivations

Words beginning with "mongolism": mongolisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Mongolism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mlongoti, Moggonisi, mongolus, Montgoris. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Mongolism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-l-m-m-n-o-o-s"

-2 letters: logions, looming, loosing, mongols, soloing.

-3 letters: glooms, igloos, isogon, isolog, logion, looing, losing, mongol, mongos, monism, mooing, nomism, simoom, simoon, soling, solion.

-4 letters: gismo, glims, gloms, gloom, goons, igloo, limns, limos, lingo, lings, linos, lions, logoi, logos, loins, longs, looms, loons, milos, moils, mongo, monos, mools, moons, noils, nolos, nomoi, nomos, olios, osmol.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-l-m-m-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: mongolisms.

 

+3 letters: immunologies, immunologist.

 

+4 letters: immunologists.

 

+5 letters: methemoglobins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mongolism


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

4D 6F 6E 67 6F 6C 69 73 6D

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)

--    ---    -.    --.    ---    .-..    ..    ...    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#110 &#103 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006E 0067 006F 006C 0069 0073 006D

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

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

478180738178758579

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INDEX

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


  

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