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Definition: Serous |
SerousAdjective1. Of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "serous" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Having to do with serum, the clear liquid part of blood. (references) |
Medicine | Relating or belonging to serum; like serum, thin or watery; secreting or containing serum. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fluidity | Adjective: liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent. (flowing). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Serous |
| English words defined with "serous": amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid, ascites ♦ bleb, blister, bulla ♦ Cerebro-spinal fluid ♦ dropsy ♦ edema, Epispastic ♦ hydrocele, hydrops ♦ Metalbumin ♦ oedema ♦ Pericardial fluid, pericardium, pleura ♦ Rupia ♦ serosa, Serose, Serosity, serous membrane, Serous membranes, serum albumin, Subserous ♦ Waters. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "serous": Ascitic Fluid ♦ Buss disease ♦ Chlamydial encephalomyelitis ♦ Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex ♦ Hemorrhagic Bacteremia, Hydrops Fetalis ♦ Mice, Inbred CFTR, Middle Ear Ventilation ♦ Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous ♦ Pleural Neoplasms ♦ Serositis, sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis ♦ transmissible serositis, Tuberculosis, Peritoneal, Tuberculosis, Pleural. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "serous": Serose. (references) |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Resonating; resonate; ring; ringing; liquid; qua; aqueous; swill; fluid; aqueous; flowing; fluent; in solution; juicy; liquefied; lymphatic; melted; molten; running; runny; serous; uncongealed; watery. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Grossly, the lungs are dense, rubbery and heavy, usually weighing twice as much as the average lung. They are often found floating in a pool of yellow serous fluid within the pleural cavity. (references) | |
Business | The central government acknowledges that growing unemployment as well as interregional and intra regional income disparities are serous concerns. (references) | |
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| "Serous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Serous" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "serous": serous membrane ♦ serous membranes. 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 |
central serous retinopathy | 44 |
serous otitis media | 13 |
serous cystadenoma | 10 |
central chorioretinopathy serous | 7 |
serous otitis | 7 |
carcinoma papillary serous | 6 |
fluid serous | 6 |
central serous | 5 |
central choroidopathy serous | 5 |
serous | 4 |
papillary serous | 4 |
membrane serous | 3 |
serous retinopathy | 2 |
drainage serous | 2 |
uterine papillary serous carcinoma | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "serous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | serumi, i lëngshëm (fluid, liquid, runny, sloppy, succulent, wishy washy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | серозен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sérový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | seroes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sereuze meningitis van het cerebellum (serous cerebellar meningitis), sereuze bronchitis (serous bronchitis), sereus exsudaat (serous exudate), osteomyelitis serosa (serous osteomyelitis), osteomyelitis albuminosa (serous osteomyelitis), hydrops genus (serous gonitis), hepatitis serosa Eppinger (serous hepatitis), glandula serosa (serous gland), er bestaat geen duidelijke correlatie tussen het gedrag van de serumcholinesterase en de cholinesterase van de rode bloedlichaampjes enerzijds, en de klinische symptomen anderzijds ; het is derhalve niet goed mogelijk het klinische beeld van de vergiftigi (and consequently it is not possible to clinically evaluate the intoxication on the basis of ferment ( or enzyme ) content, no clear correlation exists between the behaviour of serous erythrocytic cholinesterase and clinical symptomatology), cystoma papilliferum serosum (papillary cystadenoma, serous papillary cystadenoma), cystadenoma serosum (simple serous cystadenoma), cystadenoma papilliferum serosum (papillary cystadenoma, serous papillary cystadenoma), cystadenoma papilliferum (papillary cystadenoma, serous papillary cystadenoma), arthritis serosa (serous arthritis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | séreux (serious, seriously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | serös. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υδαρήσ (aqueous, waterish, watery), ορρώδησ (wheyey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | נסיובי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | savós. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sieroso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | searagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eroussay seroso. (various references) seros (whey-like). (various references) сывороточный (wheyey), серозный. (various references) serumni, serozan. (various references) seroso. (various references) serös, vattnig (washy). (various references) serumlu, seruma benzer. (various references) серозний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | serum. (various references) |
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Words ending with "serous": anserous. (additional references) | |
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"Serous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asterousi, erence, Sardou, sarouk, Sarouks, scrofus, seerius, segou, seious, Seiroku, sejours, Seoras, seors, serau, sererus, seris, serius, seros, serouis, serrons, servus, sirous, sorjus, sorous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "serous" (pronounced 'Se"rous'): Anomaloflorous, Anurous, Aurous, Canorous, Chlorous, Cirrous, Decorous, Durous, ferrous, Garous, Gastrurous, Geminiflorous, indecorous, leprous, Liguliflorous, Macrurous, mercurous, Multiflorous, Pellagrous, Radiciflorous, Ramiflorous, Sclerous, Serrous, sonorous, Squarrous, Subserous, susurrous, Uniflorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rouses. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: euros, roses, roues, rouse, ruses, sores, sorus, sours, souse, suers, users. | |
-2 letters: eros, euro, ores, oses, ours, roes, rose, roue, rues, ruse, sers, sore, sour, sous, suer, sues, sure, user, uses. | |
-3 letters: ers, ess, oes, ore, ors, ose, our, res, roe, rue, ser, sos, sou, sue, use. | |
-4 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: arouses, bourses, courses, dousers, estrous, grouses, housers, mousers, oestrus, ousters, poseurs, rousers, serious, sources, sourest, souters, stoures, sucrose, tussore. | |
+2 letters: anserous, arousers, arsenous, bescours, carouses, choruses, chousers, closures, cornuses, corpuses, coursers, crocuses, crustose, desirous, dourness, espouser, focusers, griseous, grousers, jousters, kurtoses, neuroses, neurosis, nonusers, obscures, oestrous, oestrums, onrushes, outdress, outpress, outserts, oversuds, oversups, overuses, postures, purposes, questors, rehouses, repousse, resinous, resounds, rosebuds, rosebush, roseslug, rousseau, rousters, sclerous, scourers, scourges, scouters, scrouges, shouters, soilures, sounders, sourness, southers, spermous, sporules, spouters, strumose, suberose, suberous, sucroses, supposer, supremos, surgeons, tonsures, tressour, trousers, tussores, tutoress, unhorses, uprouses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 72 6F 75 73 |
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