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Crosswords: LASIK |
| Specialty definitions using "LASIK": Flap & Zap. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The acronym for laser assisted in situ keratomileusis which refers to creating a flap in the cornea with a microkeratome and using a laser to reshape the underlying cornea. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LASIK | English | Laser in-situ keratomileusis | N/A |
LASIK | German | Laser in-situ Kerathomileusis | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Later, LASIK was developed. (references) | |
Set the amount a doctor can charge for LASIK eye surgery. (references) | ||
FDA does not maintain nor have access to any such list of doctors performing LASIK eye surgery. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LASIK" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lasik | Last name | 100 | 82,259 |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lasik | 2,183 | lasik los angeles | 38 |
lasik eye surgery | 831 | lasik new jersey | 32 |
lasik surgery | 648 | custom lasik | 32 |
lasik plus | 129 | chirurgie lasik | 32 |
lasik vision institute | 108 | lasik eye center | 31 |
lasik dallas | 101 | lasik surgery ohio | 26 |
lasik houston | 96 | lasik procedure | 25 |
lasik surgeon | 82 | lasik institute | 25 |
lasik austin | 77 | lasik columbus | 24 |
wavefront lasik | 70 | lasik texas | 24 |
lasik eye | 61 | lasik center | 24 |
lasik md | 57 | lasik ohio | 22 |
lasik vision | 55 | lasik doctor | 22 |
lasik new york | 50 | lasik surgery new york | 22 |
lasik cost | 46 | lasik eye surgery los angeles | 21 |
lasik complication | 41 | lasik eye surgeon | 20 |
au lasik traitement | 40 | miami lasik | 20 |
lasik traitement | 40 | lasik surgery cost | 20 |
lasik surgery los angeles | 39 | tlc lasik | 19 |
lasik vision correction | 39 | lasik vision correction new york | 19 |
lasik canada | 38 | new york lasik surgeon | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kails. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-k-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ails, ilka, ilks, kail, sail, saki, sial, silk. | |
-2 letters: ail, ais, als, ask, ilk, kas, las, lis, sal, ska, ski. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, as, is, ka, la, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-k-l-s" | |
+1 letter: alkies, alsike, kalifs, kiblas, miskal, saluki, tilaks, vakils. | |
+2 letters: alfakis, alkalis, alkines, alsikes, asslike, calkins, kalians, kaliphs, kaliums, kalmias, kaolins, khalifs, kiblahs, kolbasi, lakiest, lakings, larkish, malkins, miskals, odalisk, saclike, salukis, sawlike, shakily, shaslik, skaldic, skiable, skysail, slaking, snakily, talkies. | |
+3 letters: alkalies, alkalise, backlist, backslid, balkiest, basilisk, blackish, bleakish, calfskin, clarkias, flakiest, flokatis, halakist, kalimbas, kaolines, keitloas, khalifas, kielbasa, kielbasi, kielbasy, kilobars, kilobase, kilorads, kissable, kissably, kolbasis, kolbassi, ladykins, lakeside, lambkins, lambskin, landskip, lankiest, larkiest, latakias, leakiest, linkages, linksman, masklike, mastlike, odalisks, palikars, pashalik, rakishly, rashlike, sacklike, saltlike, sandlike, scablike, seallike, sealskin, seamlike, selamlik, shashlik, shasliks, sidewalk, sinkable, skiplane, skoaling, skysails, slablike, slacking, snaglike, sneakily, soaplike, souvlaki, sparkily, sparlike, stalkier, stalkily, stalking, starlike, swankily, swanlike, tailskid, talkiest, talkings, titlarks, vaselike, walkings, wasplike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 53 49 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ... .. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01010011 01001001 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A S I K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0053 0049 004B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4635534345 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Names: Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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