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Definition: Nephrosclerosis |
NephrosclerosisNoun1. Kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: NephrosclerosisSynonym: nephroangiosclerosis (n). (additional references) |
| "Nephrosclerosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nephrosclerosis" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
nephrosclerosis | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nephrosclerosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | nephrosklerose, skrumpenyre (contracted kidney). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | nephrosclerosis, nefrosclerose, schrompelnier. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | nefroangioskleroosi (arteriolar nephrosclerosis, arterionephrosclerosis, nephroangiosclerosis, Sutton and Gull's disease), pahanlaatuinen munuaisen angioskleroosi (Fahr-Volhard disease, malignant nephrosclerosis, Volhard-Fahr disease), munuaisen angioskleroosi (arteriolar nephrosclerosis, arterionephrosclerosis, nephroangiosclerosis, Sutton and Gull's disease), maligni nefroangioskleroosi (Fahr-Volhard disease, malignant nephrosclerosis, Volhard-Fahr disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | néphrosclérose. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Nephrosklerose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κακοήθης νεφραγγειοσκλήρυνση (Fahr-Volhard disease, malignant nephrosclerosis, Volhard-Fahr disease), νεφραγγειοσκλήρυνση (arteriolar nephrosclerosis, arterionephrosclerosis, nephroangiosclerosis, Sutton and Gull's disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | nefrosclerosi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ephrosclerosisnay nefrosclerosis maligna (Fahr-Volhard disease, malignant nephrosclerosis, Volhard-Fahr disease), nefroangiosclerosis maligna (Fahr-Volhard disease, malignant nephrosclerosis, Volhard-Fahr disease), nefroangiosclerosis (arteriolar nephrosclerosis, arterionephrosclerosis, nephroangiosclerosis, Sutton and Gull's disease). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-s" | |
-3 letters: chloroprenes, cohesionless, necropolises, preschoolers, responsories, rhinoceroses. | |
-4 letters: censorships, chloroprene, coprisoners, ionospheres, necropoleis, precessions, preschooler, processions, repressions, resorcinols. | |
-5 letters: censorship, coolnesses, coprisoner, holinesses, ionosphere, isochrones, necropoles, necropolis, necropsies, noospheres, oenophiles, oleoresins, poornesses, precensors, precession, preschools, princesses, prioresses, procession, processors, recessions, repolishes, repression, resorcinol, rhinoceros, richnesses, ropinesses, shorelines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 70 68 72 6F 73 63 6C 65 72 6F 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110000 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e p h r o s c l e r o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0070 0068 0072 006F 0073 0063 006C 0065 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487182748481856978718481857585 |
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