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Definition: Tonsillitis |
TonsillitisNoun1. Inflammation of the tonsils (especially the palatine tonsils). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Inflammation of the tonsils, especially the palatine tonsils. It is often caused by a bacterium. Tonsillitis may be acute, chronic, or recurrent. (references) |
Medicine | Inflammation of the tonsil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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: Tonsillitis |
| English words defined with "tonsillitis": peritonsillar abscess ♦ quinsy ♦ strep, streptococci, streptococcus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tonsillitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (tonsillitis), Dutch (tonsillitis), German (tonsillitis). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Health | Pneumonia, measles, mumps, and tonsillitis are among the diseases that can cause severe toxic vascular headaches. (references) | |
Children with Down syndrome are also more likely to develop chronic respiratory infections, middle ear infections, and recurrent tonsillitis. (references) | ||
Sometime before their first birthday, children with Hyper-IgM Syndrome begin to contract bacterial infectionsear infections, sinus infections, pneumonia, and tonsillitis. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tonsillitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tonsillitis" is used about 25 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% | 25 | 69,787 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "tonsillitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mahisje e bajameve, grykët, bajame (almond, almond tree, nut, quinsy, tonsil, tonsils). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إلتهاب اللوزتين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възпаление на сливиците, ангина (angina, quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扁桃腺炎. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zánìt mandlí (quinsy), angína (angina, quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tonsillitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tonsillitis, tonsilitis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ورم لوزه , زهرباد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tonsilliitti, risatulehdus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amygdalite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tonsillitis (amygdalitis), mandelentzündung (quinsy, tonsilitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμυγδαλίτιδα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "לקת שק"ים (tonsilitis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mandulagyulladás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | angina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tonsillite (quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 扁桃腺炎 (quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へ"とうせ"え" (quinsy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsillitistay tonsilite. (various references) amigdalitã (quinsy). (various references) тонзиллит, воспаление миндалин. (various references) upala krajnika, angina (angina). (various references) amigdalitis. (various references) tonsillit, halsfluss (angina). (various references) bademcik iltihabı. (various references) тонзиліт. (various references) viêm amiđan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "tonsillitis": tonsillitises. (additional references) | |
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"Tonsillitis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toesillitis, tonsalitis, tonsillites, tonsilliti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: instills. | |
-4 letters: instill, instils, lintols, tonsils. | |
-5 letters: insist, instil, lintol, otitis, stills, stilts, stints, stotin, tonsil. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-l-l-n-o-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: pointillists. | |
+2 letters: distillations, instillations, tonsillitises. | |
+3 letters: scintillations. | |
+4 letters: redistillations. | |
+5 letters: anticolonialists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6E 73 69 6C 6C 69 74 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- -. ... .. .-.. .-.. .. - .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o n s i l l i t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006E 0073 0069 006C 006C 0069 0074 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5481808575787875867585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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