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Definition: Fluorosis |
FluorosisNoun1. A pathological condition resulting for an excessive intake of fluorine (usually from drinking water). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Discoloration of the tooth enamel due to fluorine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Intoxication caused by long-term exposure to fluorine or fluorine compounds(2). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Fluorosis |
| Specialty definitions using "fluorosis": Fluorides. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Fluorosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fluorosis" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fluorosis | 28 |
fluorosis dental | 24 |
fluorosis skeletal | 3 |
fluorosis picture | 2 |
dental fluorosis manchas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fluorosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fluorose (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Dutch | fluorvergiftiging (chronic fluorine intoxication), fluorosis (chronic fluorine intoxication), fluorose (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Finnish | fluoroosi (chronic fluorine intoxication), krooninen fluoridimyrkytys (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
French | fluorose (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
German | Fluorosis (chronic fluorine intoxication), Fluorose (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Greek | φθορίωση (chronic fluorine intoxication, frosting, use of fluoride). (various references) | |
Italian | fluorosi (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uorosisflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fluorose (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Spanish | fluorosis (chronic fluorine intoxication). (various references) | |
Swedish | fluoros (chronic fluorine intoxication, fluorine osteopathy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-l-o-o-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: folious, furioso. | |
-3 letters: floors, flours, fluors, folios, fossil, fusils. | |
-4 letters: filos, floor, floss, flour, fluor, foils, folio, fools, fouls, fours, furls, fusil, loofs, loris, louis, lours, olios, risus, roils, rolfs, roofs, silos, slurs, soils, solos, solus, sorus, souls, sours, sulfo, surfs. | |
-5 letters: filo, fils, firs, flus, foil, fool, foss, foul, four, furl, furs, fuss. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-l-o-o-r-s-s-u" | |
+4 letters: fluoroscopies, fluoroscopist, fossiliferous, frivolousness, futurologists, stoloniferous. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscopists, unprofessional. | |
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