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PHOSSY

Specialty Definition: PHOSSY

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Medicine

A necrosis of the jaw, specifically, periostitis with suppuration, ulceration, and severe deformity of the mandible caused by chronic poisoning with yellow phosphorus(1). Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Expression: PHOSSY

Expression using "PHOSSY": phossy jaw. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: PHOSSY

Language Translations for "PHOSSY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kæbelidelse ved kronisk fosforforgiftning (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kaaknecrose door fosforvergiftiging (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

leukaluun fosforikuolio (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

French

  

nécrose phosphorée du maxillaire (phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), nécrose phosphorée (phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), mal chimique des allumettiers (phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

German

  

Phosphornekrose (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), Kiefernekrose (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νέκρωση του οστού της γνάθου (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), φωσφορική νέκρωση της κάτω γνάθου (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Italian

  

necrosi dei mascellari (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), necrosi da fosforo (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), mascella fosforica (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), mascella da fosforo (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw), fosfonecrosi (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossyphay

   

Spanish

  

necrosis fosforada del maxilar (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fosfornekros (Lucifer match makers'disease, phosphorus necrosis, phossy jaw). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PHOSSY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hyssop.

Words within the letters "h-o-p-s-s-y"

-1 letter: hypos, shops, sophs, sophy, syphs, sysop.

-2 letters: hops, hoys, hypo, hyps, posh, posy, shop, soph, sops, soys, syph.

-3 letters: hop, hoy, hyp, ohs, ops, poh, shy, sop, sos, soy, spy.

-4 letters: ho, oh, op, os, oy, sh, so, yo.

 Words containing the letters "h-o-p-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: hyssops, psychos, skyphos, syphons.

 

+2 letters: hypnoses, hypnosis, kyphoses, kyphosis, shopboys, toyshops.

 

+3 letters: apophyses, apophysis, hydropses, mesophyls, psychoses, psychosis, pythoness, sophistry.

 

+4 letters: biophysics, dysphonias, dysphorias, geophysics, hemoptyses, hemoptysis, hopelessly, horseplays, hydropsies, hypnotisms, hypnotists, hypoblasts, hypocausts, hypophyses, hypophysis, hypostases, hypostasis, hypostomes, hypostyles, hypotheses, hypothesis, mesophylls, mesophytes, photolyses, photolysis, playhouses, psychotics, sycophants, symphonies, symphonist.

 

+5 letters: chrysoprase, dystrophies, gypsophilas, hyaloplasms, hydrospaces, hypocorisms, hypocrisies, hypoglossal, hypoplasias, hypospadias, hypotenuses, hypsometers, lyophilises, phenocrysts, phosphoryls, photosystem, polyhistors, polytheisms, polytheists, psilophytes, psychopaths, pythonesses, saprophytes, scyphistoma, scyphozoans, sporophylls, sporophytes, symphonious, symphonists, symposiarch, synaloephas, typhlosoles.

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

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1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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