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Thrush

Definition: Thrush

Thrush

Noun

1. Candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults.

2. (informal) a woman who sings popular songs.

3. Songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast.

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

Date "thrush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Thrush

DomainDefinition

Medicine

A disease due to infection with species of fungi of the genus Candida. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Candidiasis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Candidiasis, commonly called yeast infection or thrush, is a fungal infection of any of the Candida species, of which Candida albicans is probably the most common. This can happen to any part of the human body.

In immunocompetent people, candidiasis can usually only be found in exposed and moist parts of the body. This would include the oral cavity (oral thrush), the vagina (vaginal candidiasis or thrush), diaper rash and folds of skin. Candidiasis is perhaps best known as the most common cause of vaginal irritation or vaginitis.

At least three quarters of all women will experience candidiasis at some point in their lives. The Candida albicans organism is found in the vaginas of almost all women and normally causes no problems, however when it gets out of balance with the other "normal flora" an infection can result. Pregnancy, the use of oral contraceptives and some antibiotics, and diabetes mellitus increase the risk of infection.

The most common symptoms are itching and irritation of the vagina and/or vulva. A whitish or whitish-gray discharge may be present, sometimes resembling cottage cheese, and may have a "yeasty" smell like beer or baking bread.

In immunocompromised patients, the candida infection can become systemic, causing much more serious disease.

Treatment

Candidiasis should be treated with antifungal medication. If indicated, an underlying reason should be looked for. As an example, oral candidiasis is often linked to the use of inhaled steroids in asthma medication. Patients on long term inhaled steroids should be taught to rinse their mouth after each dose of steroids. Parents with babies with diaper rash should be taught to keep their baby's dry to keep the fungal growth down.

Following the health tips at Vulvovaginal health can help prevent vaginal candidiasis.

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Thrush

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Thrush is the common name for the bird family Turdidae.

Thrush is also the common name for the fungal infection candidiasis or candida.

THRUSH is a fictional criminal organization in The Man from UNCLE

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thrush."

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Thrush (bird)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Thrushes

Hermit Thrush
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Division:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Turdidae
Genera
Many: see text

The Thrushes in the family Turdidae is a group of passerine birds which occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World.

They are plump, soft plumaged small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.

The taxonomic treatment of this large family has varied significantly in recent years. Traditionally it included the small Old World species, like the Nightingale and European Robin in the subfamily Saxicolini, but now often either that group or the whole family is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

This article follows Handbook of Birds of the World and retains the large thrushes in Turdidae.

For species previously in Turdidae, see Muscicapidae and chatss.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thrush (bird)."

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Synonyms within Context: Thrush

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cheerfulness

Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thrush

English words defined with "thrush": American robin, Ant thrush, Aphtha, Aphthae, Aphthoid ♦ blackbird, Blue thrush, Bush chat ♦ Draine ♦ European blackbird ♦ fieldfare, Frush ♦ genus Hylocichla ♦ Heath throstle, hermit thrush, Holm thrush, Hopping Dick, Hylocichla, Hylocichla fuscescens, Hylocichla guttata, Hylocichla mustelina ♦ Jay thrush ♦ Kickup ♦ mavis, merl, merle, Merulidan, Milk thrush, missel thrush, mistle thrush, mistletoe thrush, mocking thrush, Mountain ousel ♦ ousel, ouzel ♦ Pied blackbird ♦ redwing, ring blackbird, ring ouzel, ring thrush, robin, robin redbreast, Rock thrush ♦ Scythewhet, Skirlcock, Skrike, snowbird, song thrush, Sprew, Stone thrush, Stormcock, Sycock ♦ Thricecock, throstle, Throstle cock, Thrushel, Thrusher, Turdus iliacus, Turdus merula, Turdus migratorius, Turdus philomelos, Turdus pilaris, Turdus torquatus, Turdus viscivorus ♦ veery ♦ Water wagtail, Whistling Dick, Whistling thrush, Willow thrush, Wilson's thrush, Wood thrush. (references)
Specialty definitions using "thrush": CYPHOMANDRA COSTARICENSIS. (references)
Etymologies containing "thrush": Turdus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Thrush

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Hermit Thrush Sings (Laurel-Leaf Books) (reference)

  • The Year at Thrush Green (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Thrush

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Thrush

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Oral thrush. Aphthae. Candida albicans. Credit: CDC.

A bird biologist is banding a Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius). Credit: Tim Haller.

The nest of the thrush. Credit: Library of Congress.

Thrush. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Thrush

AuthorQuotation

Robert Browning

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

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Use in Literature: Thrush

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I remember a thrush had the confidence to snatch out of my hand with his bill a piece of cake that Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

One early thrush gave me a note or two as I drove along the woodland path

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thrush

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

When this happens, symptoms of thrush appear. (references)

Thrush is an infection caused by a fungus that grows in the mouth. (references)

Good diabetic control, no smoking, and removing and cleaning dentures daily can help prevent thrush. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thrush

"Thrush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.33% of the time. "Thrush" is used about 242 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)60.33%14626,107
Noun (proper)33.06%8037,112
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.13%10111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)2.48%6143,867
                    Total100.00%242N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Thrush

The following table summarizes the usage of "thrush" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
ThrushLast name1,00017,113
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Thrush

Expressions using "thrush": Ant thrush ♦ Babbling thrush ♦ Blue thrush ♦ Brown thrush ♦ Fruit thrush ♦ Ground thrush ♦ guttural thrush ♦ hermit thrush ♦ Holm thrush ♦ Jay thrush ♦ migratory thrush ♦ milk thrush ♦ missel thrush ♦ mistle thrush ♦ mistletoe thrush ♦ mocking thrush ♦ mountain thrush ♦ native thrush ♦ redwinged thrush ♦ restless thrush ♦ ring thrush ♦ rock thrush ♦ screech thrush ♦ shrike thrush ♦ solitary thrush ♦ song thrush ♦ squawking thrush ♦ stone thrush ♦ thrush nightingale ♦ Thrush tit ♦ Tit thrush ♦ volatile thrush ♦ water thrush ♦ whin Thrush ♦ whistling thrush ♦ willow thrush ♦ Wilson's thrush ♦ wood thrush. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "thrush": thrush-like, thrush-sized.

Ending with "thrush": missel-thrush, song-thrush.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thrush

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

thrush

1,530

tongue thrush

15

oral thrush

230

bird thrush

15

thrush mouth

115

thrush muffler

14

picture of thrush

77

in mouth thrush

13

baby thrush

67

cause of thrush

13

thrush and symptom

62

home remedy thrush

12

infant thrush

62

mouth picture thrush

12

vaginal thrush

54

thrush disease

12

mufflers thrush

47

oral thrush treatment

11

oral thrush picture

46

oral photo thrush

11

thrush treatment

33

thrush pump

11

thrush in infant

25

contagious thrush

10

breast feeding thrush

25

thrush cure

9

thrush in baby

24

cause oral thrush

9

wood thrush

23

brown thrush

8

thrush hermit

21

song thrush

8

thrush infection

20

horse in thrush

8

horse thrush

19

hiv thrush

8

thrush exhaust

17

adult thrush

7

symptom of oral thrush

15

diflucan thrush

7
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Modern Translation: Thrush

Language Translations for "thrush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mullibardhë, mugth, mëllenjë (blackbird, redwing, ring ouzel, Throstle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مرض القلاع, ‏طائر السمنة المغرد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

възпаление на крака на кон, млечница, дрозд. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

鹅口疮 (thrushes), 鶇 (Tardus fuscatus), 畫眉鳥 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

drozd (mocking-bird, Robin, Throstle). (various references)

   

Danish

  

troeske, trøske, drosselfugle (Old World flycatchers, true flycatchers). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spruw (diarrhea alba, diarrhoea alba, sprue), lijster, lijster, lýster, aphthae. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

turdo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

trøstur. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

باسترک . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rastas (fieldfare), rastaat (turdidae). (various references)

   

French

  

grive, muguet (lily of the valley). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

lyster, klyster. (various references)

   

German

  

Drossel (choke, throstle, throttle), schwämmchen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κίχλη, τσίχλα (bubble gum, chewing gum, chicle). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קיכלי, פתרת "פ", כיכלי, צוקית. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szájpenész, rigó. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

guam. (various references)

   

Irish

  

smólach. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tordo (choke, Throstle), mughetto (lily of the valley). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

鶫 , 鵝口瘡 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

が"うそう, つぐみ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

개똥지 귀 (thrushes). (various references)

   

Manx

  

trush, treshlen (mavis, song thrush, throstle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushthray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

afta (aphtha, cold sore, ulcer). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sturz (field-fare). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дрозд (catbird, ousel, ouzel). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

smeòrach (mavis). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sor, drozd (throstle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tordo (dapple, dapple grey, dappled, ousel, ouzel). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trast (ring ouzel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taban iltihabı, pamukçuk (aphtha, canker), ardıç kuşu. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

пліснявка (canker), дрізд. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tresglen, bronfraith. (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

pich'. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thrush

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

turdus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Thrush

Derivations

Words beginning with "thrush": thrushes. (additional references)

Words ending with "thrush": waterthrush. (additional references)

Words containing "thrush": waterthrushes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Thrush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: athyrus, thrasa, thraso, thruch, thrugh, thruis, thrus, thruss, thruth, thurh, thurs, thuth, thyrus, truch, trush. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thrush"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "thrush" (pronounced thru"sh)
3-r u" shbrush, crush, rush.

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Anagrams: Thrush

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-h-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: hurst, hurts, ruths.

-2 letters: hurt, hush, huts, rhus, rush, rust, ruth, ruts, shut, thru, thus, tush.

-3 letters: huh, hut, rut, shh, uts.

-4 letters: sh, uh, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "h-h-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: kashruth, thrushes.

 

+3 letters: kashruths, rushlight, thornbush.

 

+4 letters: authorship, churchiest, hundredths, rushlights, toothbrush.

 

+5 letters: authorships, churchliest, eurhythmics, eurhythmies, headhunters, housefather, housemother, ichthyosaur, motherhouse, thornbushes, thoroughest, throughputs, throughways, waterthrush.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction 		9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet 		13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes 		17. Anagrams
18. Bibliography


  

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