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Definition: Scrofula |
ScrofulaNoun1. A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scrofula" was first used: 14th century from the Late Latin expression "scroful" meaning "swelling of the glands of the neck". (references) |
Etymology: Scrofula \Scrof"u*la\, noun. [Latin expression scrofulae, from scrofa breeding sow, because swine were supposed to be subject to such complaint, or by fanciful comparison of the glandular swellings to little pigs; perhaps akin to Greek an old sow: compare to the French expression scrofules. Compare to Scroyle.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ScrofulaSynonyms: king's evil (n), struma (n). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scrofula |
| English words defined with "scrofula": Antistrumatic ♦ king's evil ♦ Royal touch ♦ Scrofulide, scrofulous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scrofula": Tuberculosis, Lymph Node. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scrofula": Scrophularia. (references) |
| "Scrofula" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scrofula" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
scrofula | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scrofula"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stërkungull, skrofull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملك الجان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скрофулоза (king's evil), живеница. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 癙 (hidden, secret), 瘰 (tuberculosis of glands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krtice (king's evil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سل غددلنفاوی گردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | risatauti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scrofule. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Skrofeln. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χελώνια (testudinata, tortoises, turtles), χελώνι (Struma, Wen), χοιράσ (Struma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חזירית (mumps). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | görvélykór (king's evil), skrofula (glandular tuberculosis, king's evil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn roig (king's evil), chingys yn ree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ofulascray escrófula. (various references) золотуха (king's evil, king's evil 1, King's evil 2). (various references) škrofula. (various references) escrófula (king's evil). (various references) skrofler (king's evil). (various references) sıraca hastalığı (king's evil). (various references) золотуха. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scrofa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scrofula": scrofulas. (additional references) | |
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"Scrofula" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cropful, scoopful, scrofulas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scrofula" (pronounced 'Scrof"u*la'): Acanthocephala, Acicula, Actinula, Ala, Algarovilla, Alula, Ametabola, Ampulla, Amygdala, Angola, Anopla, Aquila, Archencephala, Archiblastula, Areola, Armilla, Arolla, Artiodactyla, Auricula, Axilla, Baggala, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Blastula, Bulla, Cabala, Cabrilla, Caffila, Calcavella, Calendula, Calla, Camarilla, Campanula, Canella, Cannicula, Cannula, Capella, Capitula, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Chrysocolla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella, Codilla, Collembola, Columbella, Columella, Comatula, Copula, Coronilla, Cunabula, Cupola, Cypsela, Cytula, Dendrocoela, Dongola, E-la, Emgalla, Enopla, Euplectella, Fabella, Faecula, Falcula, Fasciola, Favella, Fecula, Fenes-tella, Fibrilla, fibula, fistula, flotilla, Forficula, formula, Foveola, Fovilla, Fringilla, furcula, gala, Ganocephala, Gentianella, Geophila, gorgonzola, gorilla, granadilla, Granilla, Grubbla, guerilla, Gula, Gyrencephala, Hemimetabola, Hexapla, Holometabola, hyperbola, Impalla, Infula, Intermaxilla, Itala, kabala, Kamala, koala, Lacinula, lamella, Lenticula, Ligula, Lingula, Lipocephala, Lirella, Lissencephala, Locustella, lunula, Lyencephala, macula, Magdala, mammilla, mandola, mantilla, Manzanilla, Marginella, Marsala, maxilla, medulla, Mesoscapula, Micella, Miliola, Mochila, Monerula, Monocondyla, morula, Mulla, Myelencephala, Nebula, Neurula, Nubecula, Nucula, Nyula, Octapla, Olla, Orbicula, osteocolla, Padella, Paleola, Palla, palola, Papilla, Papula, Parabola, Paracorolla, Patela, Patella, Patellula, Pathopoela, Peninsula, Pennatula, Penumbrala, Pergola, Perilla, Perissodactyla, Perula, Phainopepla, Phanerodactyla, Philomela, Pimola, Pinnula, Planula, Plumula, Polygala, Postscapula, Praemaxilla, Predella, Premaxilla, Presscapula, Pseudonavicella, Pseudonavicula, Pseudostella, Psylla, Pteryla, Pulsatilla, Pyla, Rachilla, Radula, ranula, ravenala, Retinula, Rhabdocoela, Rhachilla, Rhizocephala, Rhynchocephala, Rhynchonella, Rosella, roseola, Rotella, Rotula, rubella, rubeola, Rupicola, Sabadilla, Sabella, Saccharilla, Saltarella, sapodilla, sarsaparilla, Scagliola, Scala, Scaliola, scapula, scintilla, Scopula, Scrobicula, Scybala, Scylla, Semiparabola, Semolella, sequela, Serpula, Serrula, Setula, Sigla, Silicula, Solidungula, spatula, spirula, Spongilla, Sportula, Squamella, Squamula, squilla, Stegocephala, stela, Stipula, Stola, Strobila, Subumbrella, Succula, Sula, Supermaxilla, Supramaxilla, Symphyla, Synapticula, Tabula, Taeniola, Talegalla, tarantella, tarantula, Tegula, tequila, Terebratula, Tetracoralla, Tetrapla, Thecla, Tigella, Tipula, Tola, tortilla, trabecula, Trehala, Tremella, Turbinella, Turritella, Ulula, umbrella, Urodela, Ursula, uvula, Vaginicola, Vaginula, Valhalla, vallecula, Valvula, Vanilla, Varicella, Variola, Velella, Vesicula, Villa, Villanella, Vitrella, Vorticella, Whala, Wyla, Zilla, Zoochlorella, Zorilla. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: carfuls, carolus, oculars, oscular. | |
-2 letters: carful, carols, claros, clours, corals, floras, flours, fluors, fulcra, ocular, oscula, safrol, soucar. | |
-3 letters: afoul, arcus, calfs, calos, carls, carol, cauls, claro, clour, coals, colas, coral, curfs, curls, farls, faros, flocs, flora, flour, fluor, foals, focal, focus, fouls, fours, furls, loafs, locus, lours, orals, orcas, rolfs, scarf, scaur, scour, scurf, sofar, solar, sulfa, sulfo, sural. | |
-4 letters: also, arco, arcs, arfs, calf, calo, carl, cars, caul, coal, cola, cols, corf, cors, crus, curf, curl, curs, farl, faro, floc, flus, foal, fora, foul, four, furl, furs, lacs, lars, loaf, loca, lour, oafs, oars, ocas, oral, orca, orcs, osar, ours, rocs, rolf, saul, scar, slur, soar, sofa, sola, sora, soul, sour, sura, surf, ursa. | |
-5 letters: als, arc, arf, ars, car, col, cor, cos, cur, far, fas, flu, for, fou, fro, fur, lac, lar, las, oaf, oar, oca, ora, orc, ors, our, ras, roc, sac, sal, sau, sol, sou. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-l-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: scrofulas. | |
+3 letters: calciferous, fractiously, lactiferous. | |
+4 letters: californiums, cauliflowers, flocculators. | |
+5 letters: confabulators, fibrovascular, fluorocarbons, fluorouracils. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 6F 66 75 6C 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. --- ..-. ..- .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01101111 01100110 01110101 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r o f u l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 006F 0066 0075 006C 0061 |
| 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)5369848172877867 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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