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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Situated or occurring behind the sternum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RETROSTERNAL |
| Non-English Usage: "RETROSTERNAL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (retrosternal), German (retrosternal). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 retroesternal. (various references) retrosternal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 54 52 4F 53 54 45 52 4E 41 4C |
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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)01010010 01000101 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E T R O S T E R N A L |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523954524953543952483546 |
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