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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A dulled or reduced level of alertness or consciousness. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Advance warning signs of DSS include severe abdominal pain, protracted vomiting, marked change in temperature (from fever to hypothermia), or change in mental status (irritability or obtundation). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 |
obtundation | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-n-n-o-o-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: donation, dotation, notation, nutation. | |
-4 letters: inbound. | |
-5 letters: abound, adnoun, anoint, bandit, bonita, bonito, bouton, bunion, button, nation, notion, nutant, obtain, obtund, outbid, unbind. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 42 54 55 4E 44 41 54 49 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -... - ..- -. -.. .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000010 01010100 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O B T U N D A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0042 0054 0055 004E 0044 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4936545548383554434948 |
| 1. Quotations: Non-fiction 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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