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Definition: CVA |
CVANoun1. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
CVA | Dutch | Cerebro-vasculair accident | Medicine |
CVA | English | Cerebrovascular accident | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CVASynonyms: apoplexy (n), cerebrovascular accident (n), stroke (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CVA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "CVA" is used about 5 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) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
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 |
cva | 289 | cva hunterbolt | 6 |
alpine cva 1005 | 31 | 59 cva forestal uss | 6 |
cva muzzleloaders | 31 | 15 cva | 6 |
alpine cva 1003 | 26 | cva black powder rifle | 5 |
cva 1005 | 25 | 38 cva la shangri uss | 5 |
cva 1003 | 21 | cva optima pro | 5 |
1004 cva | 20 | alpine cva | 4 |
1004 alpine cva | 18 | 34 cva oriskany uss | 4 |
1000 alpine cva | 17 | 67 cva | 4 |
cva muzzleloader | 16 | based cva value | 4 |
cva stroke | 15 | cva black powder gun | 4 |
cva 1000 | 15 | cva muzzle loader | 4 |
cva firearm | 13 | uss constellation cva 64 | 4 |
cva black powder | 10 | 66 america cva uss | 4 |
alpine cva 1006 | 10 | 42 cva fdr uss | 3 |
cva arms | 10 | 42 cva | 3 |
cva optima | 9 | 60 cva saratoga uss | 3 |
cva rifle | 8 | 1005 alpine cva manual | 3 |
cva gun | 7 | 59 cva forrestal uss | 3 |
cva 1006 | 7 | 61 cva ranger uss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-v" | |
+1 letter: cave, cavy, vacs. | |
+2 letters: calve, carve, caved, caver, caves, cavie, cavil, clave, clavi, crave, havoc, schav, vacua, vatic, vicar, vinca, vocal. | |
+3 letters: active, advect, advice, alcove, atavic, avocet, avouch, calved, calves, canvas, carved, carvel, carven, carver, carves, casava, caveat, cavern, cavers, caviar, cavies, cavils, caving, cavity, cavort, claver, claves, clavus, cleave, clivia, coeval, cravat, craved, craven, craver, craves, havocs, octave, octavo, ovisac, schavs, vacant, vacate, vacuum, vesica, viatic, vicars, vicuna, vincas, vivace, vocals, vomica. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 56 41 |
| 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)01000011 01010110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C V A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0056 0041 |
| 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)375635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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