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Definition: Neurosyphilis |
NeurosyphilisNoun1. Syphilis of the central nervous system. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | A late form of syphilis that affects the brain and may lead to dementia and death. Source: European Union. (references) |
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 | This photomicrograph reveals central nervous system syphilis, causing general paresis, or paretic neurosyphilis. Numerous treponemes can be identified using silver impregnation technique; magnification 950X.Credit: CDC. |  | This patient had developed a perforating ulcer of great toe resulting from tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis. This condition results from the destruction of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord, normally responsible for ones position sense.Credit: CDC. |
 | Neurosyphilis is a slowly progressive and destructive infection of the brain and spinal cord that occurs in untreated syphilis. Image shows bipolar, elongated microglia or rod cells characteristic of paretic neurosyphilis; Hortega Silver stain; Mag. 950X.Credit: CDC. | ||
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Health | The physician will also need to rule out stroke, neurosyphilis, spinocerebellar ataxias, pernicious anemia, diabetes, Sjogren's disease, and vitamin B12 deficiency. (references) | |
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| "Neurosyphilis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neurosyphilis" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
neurosyphilis | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "neurosyphilis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | neurosyfilis, neurolues, tertiær syfilis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | neurosyphilis, neurolues, zenuwsyfilis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | hermoston syfilis, hermostokuppa. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | neurosyphilis, syphilis nerveuse. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Neurosyphilis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | νευρική σύφιλη. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | neurosifilide, neurolue. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eurosyphilisnay neurosífilis, neurolúes. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-u-y" | |
-3 letters: prelusions, repulsions. | |
-4 letters: heinously, lionisers, nephrosis, nourishes, polishers, prelusion, punishers, pyloruses, repulsion, seriously, spinulose, sulphones. | |
-5 letters: elisions, elusions, epsilons, hiplines, holiness, hornless, huipiles, hyperons, hypnoses, hypnosis, inrushes, inspires, isolines, lioniser, lionises, neurosis, oiliness, onrushes, perilous, phylesis, pilsners, pinholes, pleurisy, plushier, polisher, polishes, prissily, prolines, pruinose, pulsions, punisher, punishes, purlines, purloins, repolish, resinous, ripienos, ropiness, sirloins, sloshier, slushier, soilures, spinules, splenius, spoilers, sporules, sulphone, supinely, syphilis, unholier, unhorses, unripely, upsilons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-s-u-y" | |
+4 letters: hyperstimulations, neurophysiologies, neurophysiologist. | |
+5 letters: neurophysiologists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 72 6F 73 79 70 68 69 6C 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- .-. --- ... -.--. .--. .... .. .-.. .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01111001 01110000 01101000 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u r o s y p h i l i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0072 006F 0073 0079 0070 0068 0069 006C 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48718784818591827475787585 |
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