plethora
21plethora — [16] Greek plēthórē meant ‘fullness’ (it was derived from the verb pléthein ‘fill’, a descendant of the Indo European base *plē , from which English gets full, plenty, etc). It was taken over into late Latin as plēthōra, and at first was widely… …
22plethora — (PLEH thoh rah) [Greek] An oversupply; too much. Six decades of musical history are deftly shoehorned into a show that skips lightly across times and places and drops a plethora of great showbiz names The Guardian, May 11, 1999 …
23plethora — [ plɛθ(ə)rə] noun 1》 (a plethora of) an excess of. 2》 Medicine an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood. Derivatives plethoric plɛθ(ə)rɪk, plɪ θɒrɪk adjective (archaic or Medicine). Origin C16: via late L. from Gk …
24plethora — pleth•o•ra [[t]ˈplɛθ ər ə[/t]] n. 1) overabundance; excess 2) a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood • Etymology: 1535–45; < NL < Gk plēthṓra fullness …
25plethora — [16] Greek plēthórē meant ‘fullness’ (it was derived from the verb pléthein ‘fill’, a descendant of the Indo European base *plē , from which English gets full, plenty, etc). It was taken over into late Latin as plēthōra, and at first was widely… …
26plethora — 1. SYN: hypervolemia. 2. An excess of any of the body fluids. [G. plethore, fullness, fr. pletho, to become full] * * * pleth·o·ra pleth ə rə n a bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood and marked by turgescence and a reddish… …
27Plethora — Ple|tho|ra, die; , ...ren u. (Fachspr.:) ...rae [zu griech. plēthōrē = Fülle, Anfüllung, zu: ple̅thein = voll sein, sich füllen] (Med.): vermehrter Blutandrang …
28plethora — Synonyms and related words: amplitude, avalanche, congestion, deluge, embarras de richesses, engorgement, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, flood, flood tide, full, fullness, glut, high tide, high water, hyperemia, impletion, inundation,… …
29Plethora — Ple|tho̱ra [aus gr. πληϑωρη = Fülle, Anfüllung] w; , ...ren (in fachspr. Fügungen: ...rae): allgemeine oder lokale Vermehrung der normalen Blutmenge (als Folge einer ↑Polyzythämie oder als Stauungserscheinung) …
30Plethora — Ple|tho|ra die; , ...ren <aus gr. plētho̅rē »Fülle, Anfüllung«> vermehrter Blutandrang (Med.) …
