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Definition: Phrenic |
PhrenicAdjective1. Of or relating to the diaphragm; "phrenic nerve". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Phrenic" is a common misspelling or typo for: chronic, hernia, paretic, phenol, phenyl, phoenix, predict, premix, prentice, pyretic. |
Crosswords: Phrenic |
| English words defined with "phrenic": phrenic nerve, phrenic vein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "phrenic": Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "phrenic": Musculophrenic ♦ Phrenism, Phrenosin. (references) |
| "Phrenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Phrenic" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "phrenic": phrenic nerve ♦ phrenic vein. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
phrenic nerve | 23 |
damage nerve phrenic | 4 |
nerve palsy phrenic | 4 |
damage hiccups neck nerve phrenic | 2 |
injury nerve phrenic | 2 |
phrenic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "phrenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | диафрагмен (diaphragmatic), диафрагмален. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | phrenisk, phrenicus, diaphragma- (diaphragmatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | frenisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phrénique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zwerchfell (diaphragm, midriff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρενικόσ (mental), φρενικός, διαφραγματικόσ (diaphragmatic, septal), διαφραγματικός (diaphragmatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frenico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enicphray que tem frenesi (frenzied, partisanship), frénico, diafragmático (diaphragmatic). (various references) mintal (ideally, insane, mental, mentally, spiritual), frenic. (various references) грудобрюшный, грудобрюшной;психический, относящийся к диафрагме (diaphragmatic). (various references) frénico. (various references) diyaframa ait, diyafram kası. (various references) діафрагмальний (diaphragmatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "phrenic": antischizophrenic, hebephrenic, nonschizophrenic, schizophrenic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "phrenic": hebephrenics, schizophrenically, schizophrenics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "phrenic" (pronounced 'Phren"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nephric, pincher. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: ceriph, cipher, enrich, pincer, prince, richen. | |
-2 letters: chine, chirp, cripe, nicer, niche, perch, pinch, price, repin, ripen. | |
-3 letters: chin, chip, cine, cire, epic, heir, hern, hire, inch, nice, pech, pein, peri, pice, pier, pine, pirn, rein, rice, rich, ripe. | |
-4 letters: cep, chi, ern, hen, hep, her, hic, hie, hin, hip, ice, ich, ire, nip. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: encipher, perching, pinchers, pinscher, prochein, punchier. | |
+2 letters: ciphering, cyphering, enciphers, nephritic, nephrotic, paunchier, phrenetic, pinschers, preaching, sphincter. | |
+3 letters: censorship, chaptering, chippering, choppering, enciphered, encipherer, hypermanic, hyperpneic, hypersonic, hypertonic, microphone, nephrotics, princeship, pronephric, repatching, sphincters, upreaching. | |
+4 letters: censorships, chairperson, chaperoning, chiropteran, deciphering, encipherers, enciphering, endomorphic, endotrophic, graphicness, handicapper, hebephrenic, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hypermnesic, ionospheric, mesonephric, metanephric, microphones, morphogenic, necrophilia, necrophilic, nephrotoxic, neuropathic, parenthetic, pentarchies, perionychia, preachiness, preachingly, prechecking, prechilling, prepunching, princeships, pyrotechnic, renographic, reproaching, sepulchring, sphincteric. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 72 65 6E 69 63 |
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