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BIOMECHANICS

Specialty Definition: BIOMECHANICS

DomainDefinition

Health

The study of the application of mechanical laws and the action of forces to living structures. (references)

Medicine

The science of the application of mechanics to living creatures. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Biomechanics

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Biomechanics is the study of the mechanical behaviors of living organisms and stuctures. Biomechanics is about the physics of Physiology, i.e., the forces that act on the limb.

See also: Biology, Mechanics, Orthosis, Physics, Physiology.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biomechanics."

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Synonyms: BIOMECHANICS

Synonyms: Biological mechanics, Human engineering. (additional references)

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Modern Usage: BIOMECHANICS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

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

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Commercial Usage: BIOMECHANICS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basic Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System (reference)

  • Basic Biomechanics with Dynamic Human CD and PowerWeb (reference)

  • Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement (reference)

  • Biomechanics of the Musculo-Skeletal System, 2nd Edition (reference)

  • H.R. Giger's Biomechanics (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Usage Frequency: BIOMECHANICS

"BIOMECHANICS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "BIOMECHANICS" is used about 4 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)50%2245,945
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
Noun (plural)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BIOMECHANICS

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

biomechanics

198

biomechanics foot

4

biomechanics journal

21

biomechanics wrist

4

biomechanics running

15

biomechanics magazine

4

biomechanics melanoma

10

basketball biomechanics

4

biomechanics pitching

9

biomechanics equine

4

sport biomechanics

9

cycling biomechanics

4

biomechanics of the golf swing

8

biomechanics course

4

american biomechanics society

7

biomechanics volleyball

3

biomechanics tennis

7

biomechanics put shot

3

golf biomechanics

7

biomechanics figure skating

3

biomechanics long jump

7

biomechanics hockey

3

baseball biomechanics swing

6

biomechanics in rowing

3

biomechanics of the knee

6

biomechanics of the spine

3

biomechanics hip

6

biomechanics sports

3

biomechanics tattoo

6

biomechanics swimming

3

biomechanics soccer

6

biomechanics cartilage

3

biomechanics international society

5

applied biomechanics journal

3

biomechanics sternocleidomastoid

4

biomechanics interface

3

clinical biomechanics

4

biomechanics modelling

3

biomechanics serve tennis

4

biomechanics kick soccer

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BIOMECHANICS

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

Danish

  

biomekanik. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

biomechanica. (various references)

   

French

  

biomécanique. (various references)

   

German

  

Biomechanik. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιομηχανολογία (bioengineering), εμβιομηχανική (bioengineering). (various references)

   

Italian

  

biomeccanica. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

""力学 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せいたいりきがく. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iomechanicsbay

   

Portuguese

  

biomecânica. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

biomecanicã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

biomecánica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BIOMECHANICS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-h-i-i-m-n-o-s"

-3 letters: bohemians, mechanics, mischance, mischoice.

-4 letters: anechoic, bohemian, bohemias, chiasmic, chicanes, chicanos, cicisbeo, coachmen, cocaines, combines, conchies, hambones, hominies, ischemia, ischemic, isocheim, isochime, machines, mechanic, minicabs, moccasin, obeahism, sachemic, simoniac.

-5 letters: acinose, ambones, amnesic, amoebic, anomies, anosmic, bacchii, banshie, beacons, beamish, bemoans, bionics, boccias, boccies, bohemia, bonacis, camions, chaines, chamise, chamiso, chamois, chances, chasmic.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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