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Date "CEA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
"CEA" is a common misspelling or typo for: cease, ceil, clear, cue, kea, sea. |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Council of Economic Advisors) An independent agency in the Executive Branch of the Government responsible for analyzing and appraising the National economy for purposes of providing policy recommendations and advice to the President. (references) |
Health | Carcinoembryonic antigen. A substance that is sometimes found in an increased amount in the blood of people with certain cancers. (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 |
CEA | Danish | Karcinoembryonalt antigen | Medicine |
CEA | English | Council of Economic Advisers | Economics, International Organizations |
CEA | Finnish | Karsinoembryonaalinen antigeeni | Medicine |
CEA | French | Antigène cancériembryonnaire | Medicine |
CEA | German | Karzinoembryonales Antigen | Medicine |
CEA | Portuguese | Antigénio carcinoembrionário | Medicine |
CEA | Swedish | Karcinoembryogenalt antigen | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CEA |
| Specialty definitions using "CEA": anti-CEA antibody ♦ biomarkers ♦ CEA assay ♦ stuck rod worth ♦ tumor marker ♦ vaccinia CEA vaccine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CEA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (gee, ho, hoa, the, the one). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cea mai sfânta dintre toate Tu (2002) Vacanta cea mare (1988) | |
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An infiltrating ductal carcinoma of human breast origin is seen invading the breast tissue. The cytoplasm of the tumor cells is stained brown with a monoclonal antibody, which recognizes a carcinoembryonic type antigen (CEA) found within the malignant cells. The monoclonal antibody was developed at the NCI laboratory of Dr. Jeffery Schlom. Magnification is 313x. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Shown are the hands of a scientist, under a sterile hood, preparing the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) vaccinia used to try to prevent cancer. The scientist is diluting the concentrated vaccinnia virus into a dose level appropriate for administration to a patient. This vaccinnia marks any cancer cells expressing the CEA. Credit: John Keith (photographer). | ||
Dr. J. Michael Hamilton preparing the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) vaccinia used to try to prevent cancer. He is diluting the concentrated vaccinnia virus into a dose level appropriate for administration to a patient. This vaccinnia marks any caner cells expressing the CEA. Credit: John Keith (photographer). | |||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | CEA elevations correlate with stage and histology. (references) | |
Elevation of a preoperative CEA (>5 ng/ml) is an indicator of increased risk for recurrence. (references) | ||
A normal preoperative CEA does not obviate the need for adjuvant therapy in node-positive patients. (references) | ||
Business | CEA had about US$7.3 million in 1999 and US$5.5 million in 2000. The most interesting part of this program for foreign companies could be to support the development of energy service companies under Energy Performance Contracting. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Sources: Economic Times, CEA power development plan, Power Line and internal reference. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) and the industry associations are working together to encourage the use of better environmental management systems including ISO 14000. All industries with pollution potential have been required to obtain approval from the CEA or a designated body since 1990. New projects or extensions to existing projects require an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CEA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "CEA" is used about 10 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CEA" 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 |
| Cea | Last name | 200 | 34,081 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "CEA": CEA assay ♦ vaccinia CEA vaccine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CEA": Cea-industrie, Cea-paz, CEA-Scan. | |
Containing "CEA": ALVAC-CEA vaccine, anti-CEA antibody. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
cea | 275 | cea instrument | 3 |
cea blood test | 27 | cea saclay | 3 |
cea test | 16 | acvariei cea de fila taina | 3 |
cea televisa | 11 | 4001 cea | 3 |
cea level | 8 | blood cea level | 3 |
cea cancer | 7 | cea travel | 3 |
antenna cea | 5 | cea scan | 3 |
cea study abroad | 4 | advisor cea | 2 |
cea technology | 4 | cea software | 2 |
cea de televisa | 4 | amcdot.scott.af.mil cea | 2 |
advisers.co.uk cea | 4 | bobbi cea jo | 2 |
cancer cea test | 4 | cea connecticut | 2 |
cea ripault | 4 | cea marker | 2 |
cea count | 3 | cea dragutza e latura.com mai mare | 2 |
cea marker tumor | 3 | cea modas | 2 |
cancer cea colon | 3 | cea lab test | 2 |
cea grenoble | 3 | cea 125 | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CEA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kontrolstangshylster (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | CEA-Scan (CEA-Scan), arcitumomab (CEA-Scan). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Steuerelement-Fuehrungseinsatz (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξάρτημα καθοδηγήσεως της δέσμης ράβδων ελέγχου (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Tubo guida dell'elemento di controllo (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eacay saia da barra de controlo (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud), invólucro da barra de controlo (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) cubierta del conjunto de elementos de control (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CEA": ceanothus, ceanothuses, cease, ceased, ceasefire, ceasefires, ceaseless, ceaselessly, ceaselessness, ceaselessnesses, ceases, ceasing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CEA": crustacea, echinacea, gynaecea, lycea, panacea. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CEA": caducean, calceate, calyceal, cetacean, cetaceans, conceal, concealable, concealed, concealer, concealers, concealing, concealingly, concealment, concealments, conceals, crustacean, crustaceans, danceable, decease, deceased, deceases, deceasing, displaceable, disserviceable, echinaceas, effaceable, embraceable, enforceabilities, enforceability, enforceable, faceable, ineffaceabilities, ineffaceability, ineffaceable, ineffaceably, influenceable, interocean, interoceanic, irreplaceabilities, irreplaceability, irreplaceable, irreplaceableness, irreplaceablenesses, irreplaceably, lyncean, morceau, morceaux, nonenforceabilities, nonenforceability, noticeable, noticeably. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ace. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e" | |
-1 letter: ae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e" | |
+1 letter: aced, aces, ache, acme, acne, acre, alec, cade, cafe, cage, cake, came, cane, cape, care, case, cate, cave, ceca, dace, each, face, lace, mace, pace, race, tace. | |
+2 letters: acerb, aceta, ached, aches, ackee, acmes, acned, acnes, acred, acres, acted, acute, aecia, alecs, amice, apace, arced, areca, areic, beach, becap, brace, caber, cable, cache, cades, cadet, cadge, cadre, caeca, cafes, caged, cager, cages, cagey, caked, cakes, cakey, calve, camel, cameo, cames, caned, caner, canes, canoe, caped, caper, capes, cared, carer, cares, caret, carex, carle, carse, carte, carve, cased, cases, caste, cater, cates, cause, caved, caver, caves, cavie, cawed, cease, cecal, cedar, ceiba, cella, ceria, cesta, chafe, chape, chare, chase, cheap, cheat, chela, clade, clave, clean, clear, cleat, comae, coxae, crake, crane, crape, crate, crave, craze, creak, cream, cymae, daces, dance, decaf, decal, decay, eclat, enact, epact, erica, escar, exact, faced, facer, faces, facet, farce, fecal, glace, grace, hacek, hance, ileac, laced, lacer, laces, lacey, lance, leach, lycea, maced, macer, maces, mache, macle, mecca, nacre, nance, ocean, ocrea, paced, pacer, paces, peace, peach, pecan, place, raced, racer, races, rance, reach, react, recap, recta, saice, sauce, scale, scape, scare, scena, serac, space, taces, tacet, tache, teach, tecta, theca, trace, wacke. | |
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