SPIROMETRY

  

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SPIROMETRY

Definition: SPIROMETRY

SPIROMETRY

Noun

1. The act or process of measuring the chest capacity by means of a spirometer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: SPIROMETRY

DomainDefinition

Health

Measurement of volume of air inhaled or exhaled by the lung. (references)

Medicine

Measurement of the vital capacity of the lungs by means of the spirometer. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SPIROMETRY

English words defined with "SPIROMETRY": Pneumatometry. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SPIROMETRY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basic data on spirometry in adults 25-74 years of age, United States, 1971-75 (reference)

  • Computer-assisted spirometry data analysis for the national Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-80 (reference)

  • Spirometry Quality: The Essentials (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: SPIROMETRY

"SPIROMETRY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPIROMETRY" is used about 11 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)100%11106,044

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SPIROMETRY

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

spirometry

125

incentive spirometry

10

spirometry test

5

arterial hypertension spirometry

5

asthma spirometry

4

spirometry testing

3

spirometry equipment

3

reference spirometry values

2

audiometry spirometry

2

spirometry training

2

koko spirometry

2

plus spirometry

2

spirometry standardization

2

result spirometry test

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SPIROMETRY

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

Danish

  

spirometri. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spirometrie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

spirometria. (various references)

   

French

  

spirométrie, spirographie. (various references)

   

German

  

Spirometrie, Spirographie, Vitalographie. (various references)

   

Italian

  

spirometria. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irometryspay

   

Russian 

  

спирометрия. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phép đo phế dung. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SPIROMETRY

Derivations

Words ending with "SPIROMETRY": respirometry. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SPIROMETRY"

Words rhyming with "SPIROMETRY" (pronounced 'Spi*rom"e*try'): Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Aerometry, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Alkalimetry, Altimetry, Ancestry, Anemometry, Angelolatry, Anthropolatry, Anthropometry, Apomecometry, Areometry, Astrolatry, Astrometry, Astrophotometry, Asymmetry, Atmiatry, Attry, Autolatry, Avowtry, Baculometry, Ballatry, Barometry, Barratry, Bathymetry, Bibliolatry, Bijoutry, Biochemistry, Biometry, Calorimetry, Cardiometry, Carpentry, Centry, Cephalometry, Chlorimetry, Chlorometry, Choltry, Chorometry, Choultry, Chronometry, Clinometry, Colorimetry, Conchometry, Conchyliometry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPIROMETRY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: importers, misreport, reimports.

-2 letters: importer, imposter, isometry, mortiser, pierrots, pretrims, primeros, primrose, promiser, reimport, sportier, stormier.

-3 letters: erotism, imports, imposer, imprest, isotype, mistype, moister, mopiest, mortise, myopies, optimes, permits, pierrot, porters, preriot, presort, pretors, pretrim, primero, primers, promise, prosier, prostie, pyrites, reports, reposit, retrims, rioters, riposte, roister, rompers, ropiest, royster, semipro, sporter, stomper.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: pyrometries.

 

+2 letters: cryptomerias, respirometry.

 

+3 letters: psychrometric, pyromorphites, supermajority.

 

+4 letters: hypermetropias, hypermodernist, microsporocyte, petrochemistry, psychrometries, pyrheliometers, supernormality.

 

+5 letters: hypermodernists, hyperthyroidism, interparoxysmal, microsporocytes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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