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Definition: Shigella |
ShigellaNoun1. Rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that ferments sugar without gas production. Its organisms are intestinal pathogens of man and other primates and cause bacillary dysentery. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Shigella |
| English words defined with "shigella": bacillary dysentery ♦ genus Shigella ♦ Shigella dysentariae, shigellosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shigella": Causes of gastroenteritis ♦ Dysentery, Bacillary ♦ Food-borne illnesses ♦ Shiga Toxin, Shiga Toxins, Shiga-Like Toxin I, Shigella boydii, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei, Shigella Vaccines. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Shigellosis is an infectious disease caused by a group of bacteria called Shigella. (references) | |
CDC currently has six surveillance systems for obtaining information about Shigella. (references) | ||
The government has also maintained active research into the development of a Shigella vaccine. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shigella" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Shigella" is used about 9 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 (proper) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "shigella": genus Shigella ♦ Shigella boydii ♦ Shigella dysentariae ♦ Shigella dysenteriae ♦ Shigella flexneri ♦ Shigella sonnei ♦ Shigella Vaccines. 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 |
shigella | 171 |
shigella sonnei | 9 |
shigella bacterium | 8 |
shigella dysenteriae | 7 |
shigella outbreak | 7 |
shigella flexneri | 6 |
shigella attorney | 6 |
shigella lawyer | 5 |
shigella symptom | 4 |
case legal shigella | 3 |
picture shigella | 2 |
agar salmonella shigella | 2 |
plesiomona shigella | 2 |
shigella treatment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shigella"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Newcastle-stamme (Newcastle shigella, Newcastle strain). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | souche de Newcastle (Newcastle shigella). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Newcastle-Stamm (Newcastle shigella, Newcastle strain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | igellashay cepa de Newcastle (Newcastle shigella, Newcastle strain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shigella": shigellae, shigellas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-l-s" | |
-1 letter: gallies. | |
-2 letters: allies, geisha, laighs, legals, ligase, sheila, silage, sleigh. | |
-3 letters: aegis, agile, aisle, gales, galls, gills, glial, glias, hails, hales, halls, heals, heils, hells, hills, ileal, laigh, leash, legal, lisle, selah, shale, shall, sheal, shell, shiel, shill. | |
-4 letters: ages, ails, ales, alls, egal, egis, elhi, ells, gaes, gale, gall, gals, gash, gels, ghis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: megillahs, shigellae, shigellas. | |
+2 letters: eightballs, hanselling, shillelagh. | |
+3 letters: handselling, haplologies, lightplanes, shellacking, shillelaghs, wholesaling. | |
+4 letters: candlelights, lamplighters, shellackings, slaveholding. | |
+5 letters: calligraphers, calligraphies, colleagueship, collieshangie, geophysically, hallucinogens, hellgrammites, psephological, slaveholdings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 69 67 65 6C 6C 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .. --. . .-.. .-.. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101001 01100111 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h i g e l l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0069 0067 0065 006C 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)5374757371787867 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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