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Nephrosclerosis

Definition: Nephrosclerosis

Nephrosclerosis

Noun

1. 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: Nephrosclerosis

Synonym: nephroangiosclerosis (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Nephrosclerosis

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nephrosclerosis

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

nephrosclerosis

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nephrosclerosis

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

   

Spanish

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Nephrosclerosis

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nephrosclerosis


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

4E 65 70 68 72 6F 73 63 6C 65 72 6F 73 69 73

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)

01001110 01100101 01110000 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#112 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#99 &#108 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0070 0068 0072 006F 0073 0063 006C 0065 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073

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

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

487182748481856978718481857585

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INDEX

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


  

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