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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A condition in which there are abnormally thick, almost spherical, red blood cells or spherocytes in the blood. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hereditary spherocytosis is caused by a molecular defect in one of the proteins of the red blood cell cytoskeleton (usually ankyrin, sometimes spectrin). It is an autosomal dominant trait.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spherocytosis."
| 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 |
spherocytosis | 50 |
hereditary spherocytosis | 18 |
re spherocytosis | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "SPHEROCYTOSIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | sphaerocytosis. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | sphaerocytosis, sferocytose, kogelcelanemie, hemolytische icterus van Minkowski-Chauffard, anaemia sphaerocytaria. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | sphérocytose. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Sphaerozytose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | sferocitosi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erocytosissphay esferocitose. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: hyperostosis. | |
-3 letters: hypocrites, postcrises, prosthesis, sporocysts, storeships, topcrosses. | |
-4 letters: choosiest, cohostess, coreopsis, crossties, hoopsters, hypocrite, hysterics, isochores, isophotes, orthoepic, ostriches, porticoes, postiches, prothesis, psychoses, psychosis, pyrosises, schistose, sophistry, sporocyst, storeship. | |
-5 letters: cesspits, cheroots, choosers, choosier, copyists, crispest, crossest, crosstie, hipsters, hoisters, hoopster, horsiest, hospices, hotpress, hysteric, isochore, isochors, isohyets, isophote, isospory, isotopes, isotropy, isotypes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: psychohistories. | |
+5 letters: neuropsychologists. | |
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