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RETROSTERNAL

Specialty Definition: RETROSTERNAL

DomainDefinition

Health

Situated or occurring behind the sternum. (references)

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

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Crosswords: RETROSTERNAL

Non-English Usage: "RETROSTERNAL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (retrosternal), German (retrosternal).

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Non-Fiction Usage: RETROSTERNAL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These include fever, retrosternal pain (pain behind the chest wall), sore throat, back pain, cough, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, facial swelling, proteinuria (protein in the urine), and mucosal bleeding. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: RETROSTERNAL

"RETROSTERNAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RETROSTERNAL" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RETROSTERNAL

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

Danish

  

retrosternal. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

retrosternalis, retrosternaal. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rintalastantakainen, retrosternaalinen. (various references)

   

French

  

rétrosternal, rétrosternal. (various references)

   

German

  

retrosternal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οπισθοστερνικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

retrosternale. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etrosternalray

   

Portuguese

  

retroesternal. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

retrosternal. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RETROSTERNAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-r-r-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: ratteners, retorters, tolerates.

-4 letters: alertest, alterers, antrorse, arrester, arrestor, earstone, entreats, entresol, eternals, learners, nettlers, oleaster, ratteens, rattener, rattlers, realters, realtors, rearrest, reasoner, relaters, relators, relearns, relearnt, resonate, resorter, restoral, restorer, retorter, retreats, retrorse, rostrate, rottener, slattern, startler, telerans, terranes, tolerant, tolerate, torrents, treaters.

-5 letters: alerter, alterer, antlers, arenose, areoles, atoners, attorns, earners.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-r-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: intercorrelates.

 

+5 letters: intercorrelations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETROSTERNAL


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

52 45 54 52 4F 53 54 45 52 4E 41 4C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -    .-.    ---    ...    -    .    .-.    -.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010010 01000101 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0054 0052 004F 0053 0054 0045 0052 004E 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

523954524953543952483546

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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