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CECOSTOMY

Specialty Definition: CECOSTOMY

DomainDefinition

Health

Surgical construction of an opening into the cecum with a tube through the abdominal wall (tube cecostomy) or by skin level approach, in which the cecum is sewn to the surrounding peritoneum. Its primary purpose is decompression of colonic obstruction. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CECOSTOMY

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

cecostomy

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CECOSTOMY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-m-o-o-s-t-y"

-2 letters: coyotes, myosote, oocytes.

-3 letters: comets, comose, comtes, cooeys, coyest, coyote, cymose, oocyst, oocyte, ostomy.

-4 letters: cocos, comes, comet, comte, cooey, coots, cosec, coset, cosey, cotes, cymes, escot, moose, moots, mosey, moste, motes, motey, scoot, secco, smote, sooey, sooty, tomes, toyos.

-5 letters: coco, come, coos, coot, cost, cosy, cote, cots, coys, cyme, cyst, mocs, moos.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-m-o-o-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: cyclostome.

 

+2 letters: cyclostomes, cytochromes, motorcycles.

 

+3 letters: ascomycetous, macrocytoses.

 

+4 letters: actinomycoses, phycomycetous.

 

+5 letters: actinomycetous, cosmochemistry, microsporocyte.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CECOSTOMY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 45 43 4F 53 54 4F 4D 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .    -.-.    ---    ...    -    ---    --    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000101 01000011 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#69 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#77 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0045 0043 004F 0053 0054 004F 004D 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

373937495354494759

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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