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Definition: Muscae Volitantes |
Muscae VolitantesNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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 VolitantesSynonyms: floater (n), musca volitans (n), spots (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Muscae Volitantes |
| English words defined with "muscae volitantes": Myopsis. (references) |
| 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 |
muscae volitantes | 3 |
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| 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 | ||||
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 63 61 65      56 6F 6C 69 74 61 6E 74 65 73 |
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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)M u s c a e   V o l i t a n t e s |
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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