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Definition: Rheumatology |
RheumatologyNoun1. The branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of pathologies of the muscles or tendons or joints. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Some diseases covered by rheumatology are Ankylosing spondylitis, Rheumatoid arthritis, and Lupus erythematosus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rheumatology."
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Health | Conference participants included experts from many different fields, including osteoporosis and bone and dental health, nursing, dietetics, epidemiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, rheumatology, oncology, hypertension, nutrition and public education, and biostatistics, as well as representatives from the public. (references) | |
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| "Rheumatology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Rheumatology" is used about 19 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "rheumatology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rheumatologi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reumatologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rhumatologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rheumatologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρευματολογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | reumatologia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eumatologyrhay reumatologia. (various references) ревматология. (various references) reumatología. (various references) romatoloji, romatizma bilimi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rheumatology" (pronounced ruw'mutÄ"lujē) |
| 8 | -m u t Ä" l u j ē | cosmetology, dermatology. |
| 6 | -t Ä" l u j ē | cytology, gerontology, histology, micropaleontology, ontology, otology, paleontology. |
| 5 | -Ä" l u j ē | anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, criminology, dendrochronology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, graphology, gynecology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ophthalmology, ornithology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-l-m-o-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: hematology, largemouth, mythologer. | |
-3 letters: goalmouth, metrology. | |
-4 letters: aerology, alumroot, areology, autogyro, emulator, ethology, hologamy, hologram, laughter, lethargy, maturely, motherly, outglare, outhomer, rheology, theology, yoghourt. | |
-5 letters: agoroth, armhole, earthly, elytrum, glamour, gloater, glomera, gomeral, gourmet, grayout, greatly, helotry, homager, humeral, humoral, lathery, laugher, legator, legroom, loather, moorage, morulae, mothery, moulage, moulter, mouther, outhear, outrage, rathole. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-l-m-o-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: thermoregulatory. | |
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| Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "rheumatology" |
