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Contraindication

Definition: Contraindication

Contraindication

Noun

1. (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.
 


Specialty Definition: Contraindication

DomainDefinition

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.

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Antonym: indication (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Contraindication

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Contraindication

English words defined with "contraindication": Counter indication. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Contraindication

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Contraindication

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Contraindication

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

celebrex contraindication drug interaction

9

contraindication

5
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Modern Translation: Contraindication

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

   

Portuguese

  

contra-indicação (contra-indication). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

противопоказание. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

suprotan znak, kontraindikacija. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contraindicación (contra-indication). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motrekommendation. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tedavinin uygun olmaması. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

протипоказання. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Contraindication

Derivations

Words beginning with "contraindication": contraindications. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Contraindication" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contraindicacion. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Contraindication"

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)

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Anagrams: Contraindication

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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