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Definition: Splenomegaly |
SplenomegalyNoun1. An abnormal enlargement of the spleen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Enlargement of the spleen. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Splenomegaly |
| Specialty definitions using "splenomegaly": Hemoglobin C Disease ♦ Polycythemia Vera, Porphyria, Erythropoietic ♦ Sea-Blue Histiocyte Syndrome, Spleen Focus-Forming Viruses ♦ Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Salmonella typhosus, also known as Eberthella typhi and Bacillus typhosus, is the cause of Typhoid fever. This life threatening disease is characterized by fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, splenomegaly, and a relative bradycardia. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms include fever, malaise, pleuritic chest pain, cervical adenopathy, splenomegaly, and generalized papular/pustular eruptions. (references) | |
A poor response to transfused platelets also can be caused by splenomegaly, fever, sepsis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, nonviable platelets, and other conditions. (references) | ||
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| "Splenomegaly" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Splenomegaly" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "splenomegaly": hepato-splenomegaly. | |
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| 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 |
splenomegaly | 66 |
cause splenomegaly | 9 |
splenomegaly symptom | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "splenomegaly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | увеличение на далака. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | splenomegali. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | splenomegalie. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | splénomégalie, mégalosplénie. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Splenomegalie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | splenomegalia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | enomegalysplay esplenomegalia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-m-n-o-p-s-y" | |
-3 letters: amylogens, polygenes. | |
-4 letters: allonges, allonyms, amylenes, amylogen, empanels, emplanes, employes, ensample, galleons, gasolene, langleys, maypoles, megalops, melanges, mesoglea, neoplasm, peonages, pleonasm, polyenes, polygene, solemnly. | |
-5 letters: alleges, allonge, allonym, amylene, amylose, apogees, empales, empanel, emplane, employe, employs, enamels, enolase, eponyms, espanol, galleon, galleys, gallons, gallops, genomes, gleeman, langley, lysogen, mallees, maneges, mangels, mangles, mangoes. | |
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