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Definition: CATHETERIZATION |
CATHETERIZATIONNoun1. The operation of introducing a catheter. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from intubation in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions. (references) |
Medicine | Introducing into the body a special hollow instrument, called catheter, for the passage of fluids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CATHETERIZATION |
| English words defined with "CATHETERIZATION": Catheterism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CATHETERIZATION": Aortography ♦ Balloon Dilatation ♦ Cardiac catheterization, CARDIOPULMONARY TECHNOLOGIST, cardiovascular technologis, Catheterization, Central Venous, Catheterization, Peripheral, Catheterization, Swan-Ganz ♦ Electrophysiologic Techniques, Cardiac ♦ Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer ♦ Heart Catheterization ♦ Myocardial Reperfusion ♦ radiographer, cardiac catheterization, Radiography, Interventional, Radionuclide Ventriculography ♦ SPECIAL PROCEDURES TECHNOLOGIST, CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION, special vascular imaging technologis ♦ Urinary Catheterization, Urinary Reservoirs, Continent ♦ Ventricular Pressure. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A cardiac catheterization. (references) | |
In these patients, catheterization may be necessary. (references) | ||
A test for arrhythmias that involves cardiac catheterization. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CATHETERIZATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CATHETERIZATION" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CATHETERIZATION": Cardiac catheterization ♦ Heart Catheterization ♦ Urinary Catheterization. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "CATHETERIZATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 导尿. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kateterisering, kateterisation, kateteranlæggelse, katerisering, indføring af kateter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | catheterisatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ison pohjukaissuolinystyn katetrisaatio (catheterization of the duodenal papilla). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | cathétérisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Katheterismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθετηριασμός (intubation), καθετηρίασις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cateterismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atheterizationcay cateterismo. (various references) cateterización, cateterismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "CATHETERIZATION": catheterizations. (additional references) | |
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"CATHETERIZATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cateterization, catherterisation, chtheterization. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-i-i-n-o-r-t-t-t-z" | |
-3 letters: etherization, theoretician. | |
-4 letters: ratiocinate. | |
-5 letters: anorthitic, anthracite, antierotic, antiheroic, antithetic, attraction, recitation, tetracaine, thorianite, triacetate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-i-i-n-o-r-t-t-t-z" | |
+1 letter: catheterizations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 54 48 45 54 45 52 49 5A 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01011010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A T H E T E R I Z A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0054 0048 0045 0054 0045 0052 0049 005A 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373554423954395243603554434948 |
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