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Muscae Volitantes

Definition: Muscae Volitantes

Muscae Volitantes

Noun

1. Spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens.

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


Specialty Definition: Muscae Volitantes

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Small floating spots, flitting flies, entoptically observed on viewing a bright uniform field, such as the sky, and seen to flit away with attempted fixation. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Muscae Volitantes

Synonyms: floater (n), musca volitans (n), spots (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Muscae Volitantes

English words defined with "muscae volitantes": Myopsis. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muscae Volitantes

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.
 
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per Day

muscae volitantes

3
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Modern Translation: Muscae Volitantes

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

French

  

mouches volantes. (various references)

   

German

  

mouches volantes (flitting flies, mouches volantes), Augenballotement (flitting flies, mouches volantes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uscaemay olitantesvay

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Anagrams: Muscae Volitantes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-t-t-u-v"

-3 letters: emasculations.

-4 letters: consultative, emasculation, misevaluates, ultimateness, vulcanisates.

-5 letters: amativeness, atelectasis, calumniates, colemanites, constatives, contumelies, emasculates, escalations, evacuations, evaluations, inosculates, lemniscates, lovastatins, maculations, maisonettes, misevaluate, novaculites, salutations, sansculotte, solacements, vasectomies, vesiculates, vulcanisate.

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Alternative Orthography: Muscae Volitantes


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

4D 75 73 63 61 65      56 6F 6C 69 74 61 6E 74 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01100001 01100101 00100000 01010110 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#115 &#99 &#97 &#101 &#32 &#86 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0073 0063 0061 0065      0056 006F 006C 0069 0074 0061 006E 0074 0065 0073

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

478785696771256817875866780867185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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