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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A technique for assisting the circulation by decreasing the afterload of the left ventricle and augmenting the diastolic pressure. It may be achieved by intra-aortic balloon, or by implanting a special pumping device in the chest, or externally by applying a negative pressure to the lower extremities during cardiac systole. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COUNTERPULSATION |
| Specialty definitions using "COUNTERPULSATION": Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "COUNTERPULSATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COUNTERPULSATION" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
enhanced and external and counterpulsation | 11 |
external counterpulsation | 10 |
counterpulsation | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: repunctuations. | |
-3 letters: counterpoints, repunctuation. | |
-4 letters: consultation, continuators, contraptions, counterplans, counterplots, counterpoint, counterstain, crenulations, encrustation, luteotropins, neurulations, percolations, proconsulate, punctuations, reluctations. | |
-5 letters: antileptons, antiprotons, apicultures, aponeurotic, arenicolous, contentious, continuator, contraption, copulations, counterions, counterplan, counterplot, countersuit, countertops, crenulation, enunciators, eructations, inoculators, intercostal, interplants, luteotropic, luteotropin, neurulation, nonoperatic, nontropical, nucleations, nunciatures, peculations, percolation, personation, postulation, pratincoles, precautions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 55 4E 54 45 52 50 55 4C 53 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- ..- -. - . .-. .--. ..- .-.. ... .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010000 01010101 01001100 01010011 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O U N T E R P U L S A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0055 004E 0054 0045 0052 0050 0055 004C 0053 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37495548543952505546533554434948 |
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