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Definition: Cushing |
CushingNoun1. United States neurologist noted for his study of the brain and pituitary gland and who identified Cushing's syndrome (1869-1939). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cushing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Synonyms: CushingSynonyms: Harvery Williams Cushing (n), Harvey Cushing (n). (additional references) |
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Cushing is a town located in Knox County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,322.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cushing is a village located in Howard County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 31.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cushing is a city located in Payne County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,371.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cushing is a city located in Nacogdoches County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 637.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cushing, Iowa."
Crosswords: Cushing |
| Specialty definitions using "Cushing": Petrosal Sinus Sampling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Rise of Jenny Cushing (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Cushing Glacier gives birth to a berg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | [Drs. Cushing, Halsted, and Young in the operating theater]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | [Edward Cushing shaking hands with Leroy Burney]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Engraving by A. Stachic, published in "Naval Battles of America", by E. Shippen. It depicts the successful spar torpedo attack by Lieutenant William B. Cushing and his crew on the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Mary L. Cushing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | U.S.S. Cushing. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Harry C. Cushing, residence in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Interior at night. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cushing Academy students with Cushing Academy in the background, Ashburnham, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | For action enlist in the Air Service / Otho Cushing, Capt. A.S.U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Richard Cardinal Cushing. | When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Cushing" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Cushing" is used about 17 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 (proper) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Cushing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cushing | Last name | 2,000 | 4,908 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Cushing, IA (city, FIPS 17940) 2. Cushing, ME 3. Cushing, MN 4. Cushing, NE (village, FIPS 11860) 5. Cushing, OK (city, FIPS 18850) 6. Cushing, TX (city, FIPS 18224) 7. Cushing, WI |
Expressions using "Cushing": Cushing Island ♦ Cushing loop ♦ Cushing Syndrome ♦ Cushing syndrome I ♦ Harvery Williams Cushing ♦ Harvey Cushing. 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 "Cushing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Cushing's operation for hypophyseadenom eller kraniopharyngeom (Cushing operation), Cushing trokar (Cushing trocar), Cushing-clips (Cushing clips, Cushing silver clips), Cushing-meningeom (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), Cushing's ankersnit (Cushing section), Cushing's hjernespatel (Cushing spatula), Cushing's kanyle (Cushing trocar), Cushing's ledningsanaestesi (Cushing anaesthesia, Cushing anesthesia), cerebello-pontinvinkelsyndrom (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), Cushing's operation for cerebellopontin tumor (Cushing operation), Cushing's operation for trigeminusneuralgi (Cushing operation), Cushing's slynge (Cushing loop, Cushing's loop), Cushing's syndrom (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Cushing's trepanation (Cushing operation), Cushing-teknik ved inoperable hjernesvulster (Cushing technique), Cushing-ventil (Cushing valve), Cushing's metode (Cushing method), syndrom ved tumor i den cerebellopontine vinkel (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), Hippel-Lindau's sygdom (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ziekte van Landau-von Hippel (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), ziekte van Landau (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), ziekte van Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), ventiel van Cushing (Cushing valve), trocart van Cushing (Cushing trocar), trocar van Cushing (Cushing trocar), syndroom van Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), pontocerebellaire-hoeksyndroom (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), pontocerebellairehoeksyndroom (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), naad van Cushing (Cushing suture), methode vanCushing (Cushing method), metabool hypercorticisme (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), basophilismus pituitarius (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | canule de Cushing (Cushing trocar), crux de Meyer et Archambault (Cushing loop, Cushing's loop), maladie I de Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), aiguille de Cushing (Cushing trocar), anesthésie tronculaire de Cushing (Cushing anaesthesia, Cushing anesthesia), angiomatose rétino-cérébelleuse (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), endothéliome méningé (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), hypercorticisme glycocorticoïde (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), hypercorticisme métabolique (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), incision en forme d'ancre de Cushing (Cushing section), méningiome (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), méningiome de Cushing (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), agrafe de Cushing (Cushing clips, Cushing silver clips), maladie de Hippel-Lindau (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), volet de Cushing (Cushing valve), neurinome de l'acoustique (Cushing syndrome II), obésité ostéoporotique (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), opération de Cushing (Cushing operation, Cushing's operation), spatule cérébrale de Cushing (Cushing spatula), spatule de Cushing (Cushing spatula), surjet de Cushing (Cushing suture), suture de Cushing (Cushing suture), syndrome de l'angle ponto-cérébelleux (Cushing syndrome II), syndrome I de Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), syndrome II de Cushing (Cushing syndrome II), technique de Cushing (Cushing technique), trocart de Cushing (Cushing trocar), méthode de Cushing (Cushing method). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Cushing Syndrom I (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Crooke-Apert-Gallais Syndrom (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Cushing Ankerschnitt (Cushing section), Cushing Haemangioblastom (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), Cushing Haemangiom (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), Cushing Hirnspatel (Cushing spatula), Cushing Klipps (Cushing clips, Cushing silver clips), Cushing Krankheit (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Cushing Leitungsanaesthesie (Cushing anaesthesia, Cushing anesthesia), Cushing Methode (Cushing method), Cushing Naht (Cushing suture), Cushing Schleife (Cushing loop, Cushing's loop), Cushing Syndrom II (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), Cushing Trokar (Cushing trocar), Cushing Tumor (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), Cushing Ventil (Cushing valve), Cushing Technik (Cushing technique), Cushing Operation (Cushing operation), Hyperkortizismus (adrenogenital syndrome, Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Apert-Gallais Syndrom (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), basophiler Hyperpituitarismus (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Basophilismus (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Morbus Icenko-Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Morbus hypersuprarenalis (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Morbus Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), hypophysärer Basophilismus (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Hyperkortikoidismus (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Hyperadrenokortizismus (adrenogenital syndrome, Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome, hyperadrenocorticism), Apert-Cushing Syndrom (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Sakralsegment-Hyperkortizismus (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), Kleinhirn-Brückenwinkelsyndrom (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποφυσιογενής βασιοφιλιδισμός (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), αιμαγγείωμα του Cushing (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), τροκάρ του Cushing (Cushing trocar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | trequarti di Cushing (Cushing trocar), sindrome dell'angolo pontocerebellare (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), emangioma di Cushing (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), emangioblastoma di Cushing (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), ago di Cushing (Cushing trocar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushingcay síndrome I de Cushing (Cushing syndrome I, Cushing's syndrome), anestesia de Cushing (Cushing anaesthesia, Cushing anesthesia), angiomatose retino-cerebelosa (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), doença de Hippel-Landau (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), espátula de Cushing (Cushing spatula), método de Cushing (Cushing method), agrafos de Cushing (Cushing clips, Cushing silver clips), síndrome do ângulo ponto-cerebeloso (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), válvula de Cushing (Cushing valve), síndrome II de Cushing (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), secção de Cushing (Cushing section), sutura de Cushing (Cushing suture), técnica de Cushing (Cushing technique), trocarte de Cushing (Cushing trocar), tumor de Cushing (Cushing tumor, Cushing tumour), operação de Cushing (Cushing operation). (various references) trocar de Cushing (Cushing trocar), síndrome del ángulo pontocerebeloso (Cushing syndrome II, pontocerebellar angle syndrome), hemangioblastoma de Cushing (Cushing haemangioblastoma, Cushing haemangioma, Cushing hemangioblastoma, Cushing hemangioma), asa de Meyer (Cushing loop, Cushing's loop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cushing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coshing, Cushings, Cushnie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-n-s-u" | |
-2 letters: chins, chugs, cuing, cuish, incus, nighs, suing, using. | |
-3 letters: chin, chis, chug, cigs, ghis, gins, gnus, guns, gush, hins, hisn, hugs, huic, hung, huns, ichs, inch, nigh, shin, shun, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, snug, such, sugh, sung, ughs, unci. | |
-4 letters: chi, cig, cis, ghi, gin, gnu, gun, hic, hin, his, hug, hun, ich. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: chousing, crushing, hocusing, ruchings, shucking. | |
+2 letters: chorusing, churnings, couchings, hocussing, pinchbugs, schussing, scutching, shuckings, slouching, smutching. | |
+3 letters: chorussing, churchings, crushingly, cushioning, nightclubs, purchasing, scheduling, schlumping, scrunching, squelching, squinching, staunching. | |
+4 letters: chirurgeons, cornhusking, grouchiness, huckstering, mistouching, outscheming, scouthering, sepulchring, surcharging, unshackling, unstitching, vouchsafing. | |
+5 letters: bushwhacking, churchgoings, copublishing, cornhuskings, haircuttings, packinghouse, repurchasing, rescheduling, roughcasting, schizogonous, sepulchering, shortcutting, undischarged. | |
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