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CEA

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.


Specialty Definition: CEA

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CEA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CEA

DanishKarcinoembryonalt antigenMedicine

CEA

EnglishCouncil of Economic AdvisersEconomics, International Organizations

CEA

FinnishKarsinoembryonaalinen antigeeniMedicine

CEA

FrenchAntigène cancériembryonnaireMedicine

CEA

GermanKarzinoembryonales AntigenMedicine

CEA

PortugueseAntigénio carcinoembrionárioMedicine

CEA

SwedishKarcinoembryogenalt antigenMedicine

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

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Crosswords: CEA

Specialty definitions using "CEA": anti-CEA antibodybiomarkersCEA assaystuck rod worthtumor markervaccinia 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).

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Modern Usage: CEA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Cea mai sfânta dintre toate Tu (2002)

Vacanta cea mare (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: CEA

DomainTitle

Books

  • 43e Colloque de Metallurgie de L'Instn: Materiaux Pour Le Nucleaire: Les Enjeux Des Prochaines Decennies: Cea Saclay/Instn, 27-29 Juin 2000 (reference)

  • Cea Handbook Le Ki-Es-Ki 1986 (reference)

  • Cell Adhesion and Communication Mediated by the CEA Family: Basic and Clinical Perspectives (Cell Adhesion and Communication) (reference)

  • In the Most Beautiful Life/in Cea Mai Frumoasa Viata (reference)

  • International Conference in the Cea (Gene) Family: From Basic Research to Clinical Application: December 2, 1993, Freiburg I.Br., Germany (Tumor bio (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: CEA

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CEA

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: CEA

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)50%5157,705
Noun (singular)40%4175,879
Noun (common)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: CEA

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CeaLast name20034,081
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CEA

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CEA

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

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.

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Modern Translation: CEA

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

cubierta del conjunto de elementos de control (CEA shroud, control assembly shroud, control element assembly shroud). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CEA

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).

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Anagrams: CEA

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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