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Definition: Cardiovascular |
CardiovascularAdjective1. Of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels; "cardiovascular conditioning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | Pertaining to the heart and the blood vessels. (references) |
Health | Having to do with the heart and blood vessels. (references) |
Medicine | Pertaining to blood and heart vessels. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CARDIO | English | Feasability study on the European component EUG7 of the G7 global health care cardiovascular sub project | Computing, Medicine |
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 | This photo of cardiovascular syphilis shows coronary artery stenosis, a feature of late syphilis. The ostia of both coronary arteries are markedly stenosed. Note the "tree-bark" effect in the intimal lining of the aorta just superior to the aortic valve.Credit: CDC. |  | This patient with late tertiary syphilis has developed an aortic aneurysm, which is eroding supraclavicularly through the ribs and clavicle. Cardiovascular syphilis can begin 5 to 10 years after initial infection.Credit: CDC. |
 | Diagram of the cardiovascular system.Credit: NIAA. |  | ... a waiting room for cardiac patients taking part in a survey of cardiovascular diseases. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Farkas.. |
 | Equipment for studying the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. / WHO photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff, Chief of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Methamphetamine can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems. (references) | |
There is also the potential for cardiovascular failure or lethal seizures. (references) | ||
Proteinuria has also been shown to be associated with cardiovascular disease. (references) | ||
Business | Cardiovascular equipment pays an average 14 percent. (references) | |
Supplies for cardiovascular equipment have great potential if competitively priced. (references) | ||
The majority of Argentina's demand for high-tech cardiovascular equipment is met by imports. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | Sikder was later transferred to Dhaka's National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases where the attending doctors amputated his right leg, which had been shattered by bullets. (references) |
Economic History | Japan | Domestic production of cardiovascular drugs is the largest among therapeutic categories. (references) |
Norway | Among these are newer medicines for rheumatic conditions, asthma and cardiovascular diseases. (references) | |
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| "Cardiovascular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Cardiovascular" is used about 235 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.57% | 234 | 19,621 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 235 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cardiovascular": Cardiovascular Abnormalities ♦ Cardiovascular Agents ♦ Cardiovascular complications ♦ Cardiovascular Deconditioning ♦ Cardiovascular disease ♦ cardiovascular endurance ♦ Cardiovascular failure ♦ Cardiovascular Physiology ♦ cardiovascular reflexes ♦ Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures ♦ Cardiovascular system. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cardiovascular": cardiovascular-pulmonary. | |
Ending with "cardiovascular": non-cardiovascular. | |
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| 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 "cardiovascular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kardiovaskular. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърдечносъдов. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心血管. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cardiovaskulær, cardiovaskulær. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cardiovasculair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sydämen ja verisuonien kuvantaminen (cardiovascular imaging), kardiovaskulaarinen kuvantaminen (cardiovascular imaging), kardiovaskulaarinen analeptikumi (cardiovascular analeptic), kardiovaskulaarinen analepti (cardiovascular analeptic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cardiovasculaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kardiovaskular, kardiovaskulär. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρδιαγγειακός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szív és érrendszer (cardiovascular system). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cardiovascolare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 심장 혈관. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardiovascularcay cardiovascular. (various references) cardiovascular. (various references) сердечно-сосудистый. (various references) kardio-vaskularni. (various references) cardiovascular. (various references) серцево-судинний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Cardiovascular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caediovascular, cardiorvascular, cardiovascualr, cardiovasculae, cardiovasculary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cardiovascular" (pronounced kÄ'rdēōva"skyuler) |
| 9 | -ō v a" s k y u l er | gastrovascular. |
| 8 | -v a" s k y u l er | vascular. |
| 6 | -s k y u l er | muscular. |
| 5 | -k y u l er | avuncular, binocular, circular, curricular, extracurricular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, particular, perpendicular, secular, semicircular, spectacular, testicular, unspectacular, vehicular, vernacular. |
| 4 | -y u l er | angular, annular, cellular, equiangular, globular, granular, intercellular, irregular, jugular, popular, rectangular, regular, singular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular. |
| 3 | -u l er | abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, embezzler, enabler, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-i-l-o-r-r-s-u-v" | |
-4 letters: carvacrols. | |
-5 letters: adularias, avascular, calvarias, carvacrol, circulars, corrivals, cursorial, radicular, railroads, rivalrous. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101111 01110110 01100001 01110011 01100011 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i o v a s c u l a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 006F 0076 0061 0073 0063 0075 006C 0061 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847075818867856987786784 |
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