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Definition: Sarcoid |
SarcoidAdjective1. Of or relating to or resembling flesh. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Sarcoid \Sar"coid\, adjective. [from Greek expression. See Sarcode.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | A cutaneus lesion occurring as a manifestation of sarcoidosis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SarcoidSynonym: fleshy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sarcoid |
| Specialty definitions using "sarcoid": Boeck's sarcoid ♦ Kveim Test. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For example, sarcoid granulomas can appear in the brain, spinal cord, and facial and optic nerves. (references) | |
Kveim test. This test involves injecting a standardized preparation of sarcoid tissue material into the skin. On the one hand, a unique lump formed at the point of injection is considered positive for sarcoidosis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sarcoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Sarcoid" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sarcoid": Boeck's sarcoid. 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 |
sarcoid | 202 |
disease sarcoid | 11 |
equine sarcoid | 7 |
connection sarcoid | 6 |
sarcoid tumor | 4 |
sarcoid symptom | 4 |
sarcoid skin | 3 |
lung sarcoid | 3 |
cause sarcoid | 3 |
sarcoid treatment | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sarcoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sarcoid. (various references) | |
Dutch | sarcoïd,sarcoïed. (various references) | |
French | sarcoïde. (various references) | |
German | Sarkoid. (various references) | |
Greek | σαρκοειδήσ (fleshy). (various references) | |
Italian | sarcoide. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arcoidsay.(various references) | |
Spanish | sarcoidosis (benign lymphogranulomatosis, Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann syndrome, Boeck's sarcoid, lupus pernio, Mortimer disease, sarcoidosis, Schaumann benign lymphogranulomatosis, Schaumann's syndrome), sarcoide de Boeck (benign lymphogranulomatosis, Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann syndrome, Boeck's sarcoid, lupus pernio, Mortimer disease, sarcoidosis, Schaumann benign lymphogranulomatosis, Schaumann's syndrome), enfermedad de Schaumann (benign lymphogranulomatosis, Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann syndrome, Boeck's sarcoid, lupus pernio, Mortimer disease, sarcoidosis, Schaumann benign lymphogranulomatosis, Schaumann's syndrome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sarcoid": sarcoidoses, sarcoidosis, sarcoids. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sarcoid" (pronounced 'Sar"coid'): Centriscoid, Cricoid, Meniscoid, Molluscoid, OEcoid, Percoid, Phacoid, Picoid, Scincoid. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aroids, cairds, darics, radios, scoria. | |
-2 letters: acids, acrid, adios, aroid, asdic, cadis, caids, caird, cards, codas, coirs, cords, coria, daric, disco, dorsa, orcas, radio, raids, roads, sarod, scrod, sodic. | |
-3 letters: acid, ados, aids, airs, arco, arcs, arid, asci, cadi, cads, caid, card, cars, ciao, coda, cods, coir, cord, cors, cris, dais, disc, docs, dors, oars, ocas, odic, orad, orca, orcs, osar, rads, raid, rias, rids, road, rocs, rods, sadi, said, sard, sari, scad, scar, soar, soda, sora, sord, sori. | |
-4 letters: ado, ads, aid, air, ais, arc, ars, cad, car, cis, cod, cor, cos, dis, doc, dor, dos, ids, oar, oca, ods, ora, orc, ors, rad, ras, ria, rid, roc, rod, sac, sad, sic, sir, sod, sri. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, ar, as, do, id, is, od, or, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: carotids, cordials, corridas, idocrase, picadors, sarcoids, sardonic, sporadic. | |
+2 letters: braconids, cancroids, cardioids, coadmires, coracoids, cordwains, corydalis, dictators, disaccord, dropsical, hyracoids, idocrases, ironclads, picadores, rhapsodic, varicosed. | |
+3 letters: abdicators, accordions, arachnoids, bacteroids, caddisworm, carcinoids, chancroids, chipboards, chromatids, clipboards, clostridia, corianders, cowardices, deaconries, dedicators, desiccator, dichondras, dichromats, dicumarols, disaccords, discordant, discourage, dormancies, fricandoes, icosahedra, indicators, kickboards, mordancies, obduracies, orchardist, ordinances, ostracised, ostracized, parodistic, picofarads, predacious, prosodical, radicchios, redactions, scorpaenid, sporicidal, syndicator. | |
+4 letters: achondrites, aphrodisiac, archdiocese, barricadoes, brachiopods, caddisworms, caparisoned, cardiograms, carotenoids, carotinoids, caryopsides, categorised, clavichords, clostridial, comraderies, comradeship, confirmands, considerate, constrained, contradicts, coordinates, cordialness, cordilleras, cordwainers, corydalises, crystalloid, decorations, democracies, desecration, desiccators, detractions, diachronies, diastrophic, dichromates, dicoumarins, dicoumarols, disaccorded, discography, discordance, discordancy, discouraged, discourager, discourages, distraction, duplicators, elucidators, eradicators, forecaddies, harpsichord, hydrostatic, icosahedral, icosahedron, microfarads, myocarditis, orchardists, periodicals, rhapsodical, sarcoidoses, sarcoidosis, sardonicism, scorpaenids, secondaries, secondarily, switchboard, syndicators, vindicators. | |
+5 letters: accessorised, accessorized, accordionist, adjudicators, aerodynamics, aphrodisiacs, archdiocesan, archdioceses, artiodactyls, braggadocios, branchiopods, broadcasting, cardiographs, cardiologies, cardiologist, cardiotonics, coadjutrices, commanderies, commiserated, comradeships, conquistador, considerable, considerably, consolidator, coordinators, cordialities, counterraids, cowardliness, crocodilians, crossbanding, crystalloids, cyanohydrins, deactivators, decapitators, decarbonizes, declarations, decorticates, demarcations, democratizes, demographics, deprecations, depreciators, desecrations, diaphoretics, dichromatism, dictatorship, dictionaries, diffractions, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, directorates, disaccording, discographer, discographic, discordances, discordantly, discouragers, discouraging, discoverable, distractions, doctrinaires, dominatrices, endocarditis, eradications, forbiddances, harpsichords, hydromancies, hydrostatics, icosahedrons, idiosyncrasy, immoderacies, isodiametric, judicatories, microreaders, orchidaceous, orthopaedics, postcardlike, predications, proboscidean, proboscidian, prosodically, radiocarbons, radiochemist, radiotracers, recordations, reeducations, resocialized, romanticised, ropedancings, saccharoidal, sardonically, sardonicisms, solidaristic, sporadically, subarachnoid, switchboards, transduction, trichomonads, woodcarvings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 72 63 6F 69 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .-. -.-. --- .. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101111 01101001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a r c o i d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0072 0063 006F 0069 0064 |
| 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)53678469817570 |
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