autismlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of autism.
Example Sentences
- "The idea that vaccines cause autism got a boost in March, when the Centers for Disease Control settled with the parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling on the grounds that her autismlike symptoms were caused by vaccines that aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder."
- "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates developmental disabilities like autism or autismlike disorders, such as Asperger's syndrome, will strike one in every 150 children, and four out of five of them will be boys."
- "One study, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) aimed at the subthalamic nucleus, an area of the brain that holds movements in check, helped suppress excessive self-grooming in two autismlike mouse models."
Etymology
From autism + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more autismlike (comparative)
most autismlike (superlative)