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Black Tongue

Definition: Black Tongue

Black Tongue

Noun

1. A benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Black Tongue

Synonyms: furry tongue (n), hairy tongue (n). (additional references)

Photo Album: Black Tongue

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	Black tongue associated with penicillin therapy.Credit: CDC.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Tongue

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
black tongue	133
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Black Tongue

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-k-l-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: countable, gluconate.
	-3 letters: blackout, blockage, bluecoat, octangle.
	-4 letters: abluent, backlog, backout, becloak, blacken, blanket, bulkage, butanol, coagent, cognate, congeal, cutbank, globate, gunboat, gunlock, lactone, languet, lockage, locknut, noctule, notable, outback, outbake, tangelo, tunable, unblock, uncloak.
	-5 letters: anklet, auklet, baguet, bangle, beacon, beckon, beclog, beknot, belong, beluga, blunge, boatel, boucle, bounce, bucket, buckle, bungle, butane.
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Alternative Orthography: Black Tongue

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 63 6B 54 6F 6E 67 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#110 &#103 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0054 006F 006E 0067 0075 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36786769772548180738771

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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