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Rhagades

Definition: Rhagades

Rhagades

Noun

1. Cracks or fissures in the skin (especially around the mouth or anus).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Rhagades" is a common misspelling or typo for: charades, heads, raggedness.


Specialty Definitions: Rhagades

DomainDefinitions

Health

Fissures, cracks, or fine linear scars in the skin, especially such lesions around the mouth or other regions subjected to frequent movement. (references)

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Photo Album: Rhagades

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Thia patient with congenital syphilis is exhibiting rhagades, which are cracks or fissures in the skin around the mouth. Such a rare type of facial disfigurement, results from persistent infantile syphilitic rhinitis.Credit: CDC.

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Modern Translations: Rhagades

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

Danish

  

papilfissur (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tepelkloof (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades), fissura mammae (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

French

  

rhagade du mamelon (nipple rhagades), crevasse du mamelon (nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

German

  

Brustwarzenschrunde (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades), Brustwarzenrhagade (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ραγάδες θηλής μαστού (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ragade del capezzolo (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agadesrhay

   

Spanish

  

grietas del pezón (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades), fisuras del pezón (crack of the nipple, fissure of the nipple, nipple rhagades). (various references)

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Anagrams: Rhagades

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-r-s"

-2 letters: adages, dasher, gashed, gasher, gerahs, grades, shader, shared, sradha.

-3 letters: aahed, aargh, adage, agars, agers, aghas, ahead, areas, ashed, dares, dears, deash, degas, drags, dregs, egads, gears, gerah, grade, grads, haars, hades, hards, hared, hares, heads, heard, hears, herds, ragas, raged, rages, rased, reads, rheas, sadhe, sager, sarge, shade, shard, share, shear.

-4 letters: aahs.

-5 letters: aah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-h-r-s"
 

+1 letter: headgears.

 

+2 letters: hydrangeas.

 

+3 letters: chargehands, dragonheads, haggardness.

 

+4 letters: grandfathers, spearheading.

 

+5 letters: dischargeable, haggardnesses, radiographies, straightlaced.

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Alternative Orthography: Rhagades


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

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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)

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

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