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NUN'S KNEE

Specialty Definition: NUN'S KNEE

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Medicine

Swelling over the front of the knee cap from the repeated pressure and friction of kneeling(1). Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: NUN'S KNEE

Language Translations for "NUN'S KNEE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bursitis praepatellaris (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee, potman's bursitis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

monikkenknie (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee), hygroma bursae prepatellaris (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee). (various references)

   

French

  

genou de l'ecclésiastique (nun's bursitis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φλεγμονή του υπερεπιγονατιδίου θυλάκου (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Gicocchia dei religiosi (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

un'snay eeknay

   

Spanish

  

rodilla del eclesiástico (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skurgumsknä (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee), prepatellarbursit (clergyman's bursitis, nun's bursitis, parson's knee). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NUN'S KNEE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-e-e-k-n-n-n-s-u"

-3 letters: sunken, unseen.

-4 letters: ensue, keens, knees, nenes, neuks, nukes, skeen, skene.

-5 letters: ekes, keen, kens, knee, kues, kune, nene, neuk, nuke, nuns, seek, seen, sene, skee, sunk, sunn, ukes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NUN'S KNEE


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

4E 55 4E 27 53      4B 4E 45 45

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

    

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

01001110 01010101 01001110 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001011 01001110 01000101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#85 &#78 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#75 &#78 &#69 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0055 004E 0027 0053      004B 004E 0045 0045

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

485548953245483939

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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