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Definition: Contraindication |
ContraindicationNoun1. (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Any factor or sign that it is unwise to pursue a certain kind of action or treatment, e. g. giving a general anaesthetic to a person with pneumonia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: indication (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissuasion | Reluctance; (unwillingness); contraindication. |
Warning | Noun: warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice; (information); premonition, premonishment; prediction; contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contraindication |
| English words defined with "contraindication": Counter indication. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Age, per se, is not a contraindication to implantation. (references) | |
This condition has long been considered an absolute contraindication to manipulative therapy. (references) | ||
Uncontrollable coagulopathy appears to be a contraindication to endoscopic hemostatic therapy in the patient who is not actively bleeding. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Contraindication" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contraindication" is used about 18 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 (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
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 |
celebrex contraindication drug interaction | 9 |
contraindication | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "contraindication"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التغاير (contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | контраиндикация, противопоказание. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kontraindikace. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kontraindikation (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | contra-indicatie (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | contre-indication (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kontraindikation (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντένδειξις (contra-indication), αντένδειξη (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | controindicazione (contra-indication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontraindicationcay contra-indicação (contra-indication). (various references) противопоказание. (various references) suprotan znak, kontraindikacija. (various references) contraindicación (contra-indication). (various references) motrekommendation. (various references) tedavinin uygun olmaması. (various references) протипоказання. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contraindication": contraindications. (additional references) | |
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"Contraindication" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contraindicacion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "contraindication" (pronounced 'Con"tra*in`di*ca"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: indoctrination. | |
-3 letters: contradiction, incardination, ratiocination. | |
-5 letters: cardiotonic, coarctation, contraction, incantation, incarnation, noncontract. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contraindications. | |
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