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Definition: Cardiology |
CardiologyNoun1. The branch of medicine dealing with the heart and its diseases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | The study of the heart, its physiology, and its functions. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cardiology |
| English words defined with "cardiology": cardiologic, cardiologist ♦ heart specialist, heart surgeon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cardiology": Cardiology Service, Hospital ♦ Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine ♦ scimitar syndrome. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | An intensive care unit at the A.L. Miasnikov Institute of Cardiology in Moscow. / WHO/Novosti photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A non-Federal, nonadvocate, 13-member panel representing the fields of cardiology, psychology, exercise physiology, nutrition, pediatrics, public health, and epidemiology. (references) | |
Business | In general, the market for high-end cardiovascular equipment is predominantly located in specialized cardiology centers, and large public and private hospitals. (references) | |
This is considered to be one of the most effective ways to enter into the Argentine cardiology market, since the magazine is the number one publication for these specialized physicians and surgeons. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Cardiology equipment constitutes 20 percent of the total market, followed by imaging system accounting for 15 percent of the market. (references) |
Malaysia | Another hospital, Serdang Hospital, which is expected to be operational in 2004, will be the reference center for cardiology, cardiothoracic, urology and nephrology surgery. (references) | |
Japan | This will remain especially true in the more technologically sophisticated product categories such as pacemakers, advanced interventional cardiology products, artificial implants and digital imaging equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cardiology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Cardiology" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | 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. |
| Language | Translations for "cardiology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kardioligji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبحث القلب, طب القلب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кардиология. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心脏病学. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kardiologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دانش قلب شناسی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cardiologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kardiologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kardiológia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ilmu penyakit jantung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cardiologia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardiologycay cardiologia. (various references) cardiologie. (various references) кардиология. (various references) kardiologija. (various references) cardiología. (various references) kardiologi. (various references) kardiyoloji. (various references) кардіологія, вчення про серцеві хвороби. (various references) khoa tim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Cardiology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carciofo, cardialogy, cardilogy, certology, craniology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cardiology" (pronounced kÄ'rdēÄ"lujē) |
| 7 | -d ē Ä" l u j ē | ideology, radiology. |
| 6 | -ē Ä" l u j ē | anesthesiology, archaeology, archeology, embryology, epidemiology, etiology, genealogy, geology, physiology, sociology, theology. |
| 5 | -Ä" l u j ē | anthology, anthropology, apology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, endocrinology, entomology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etymology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, Pomology, psychology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, terminology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-i-l-o-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: radiology. | |
-2 letters: gardyloo, gyroidal. | |
-3 letters: acridly, cordial, goliard. | |
-4 letters: acidly, algoid, aridly, cagily, calory, caroli, corody, coydog, dialog, garlic, glairy, gloria, goodly, gooral, gorily, lorica, oorali, orgiac, racily. | |
-5 letters: acidy, acold, acrid, alcid, algid, algor, argil, argol, aroid, cadgy, caird, cargo, carol, cigar, claro, clary, coaly, colog, color, cooly, coral, corgi, coria, daily, dairy, daric. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-g-i-l-o-o-r-y" | |
+2 letters: hydrological, radioecology. | |
+4 letters: hydrologically, radiologically. | |
+5 letters: hydrobiological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 64 69 6F 6C 6F 67 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i o l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678470758178817391 |
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