Epidural

Definitions: Epidural

Epidural

Adjective

1. On or outside the dura mater.

Noun

1. Regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery.

Specialty Definitions: Epidural

Domain	Definitions
Health	The space between the wall of the spinal canal and the covering of the spinal cord. An epidural injection is given into this space. (references)
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Synonyms: Epidural

Synonyms: extradural (adj), epidural anaesthesia (n), epidural anesthesia (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: extradural (medicine).

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Crosswords: Epidural

English words defined with "epidural": caudal anaesthesia, caudal anesthesia, caudal block ♦ epidural anaesthesia, epidural anesthesia ♦ regional anaesthesia, regional anesthesia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "epidural": Analgesia, Epidural, Anesthesia, Caudal ♦ Blood Patch, Epidural ♦ Discitis ♦ epidural block, Epidural Neoplasms, Epidural Space ♦ Injections, Epidural, Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic, Intracranial Hemorrhages ♦ Perimeningeal Infections, Pneumocephalus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Epidural" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (epidural), German (epidural), Portuguese (epidural).

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Commercial Usage: Epidural

Domain	Title
Books	An Atlas of Epidurograms: Epidural Blocks Investigated (reference) Postoperative Epidural Opioids (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Epidural

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		These methods include sphenoidal leads, subdural and epidural electrodes and grids, and depth electrodes placed stereotaxically. (references)
		Regional blocks affect a larger area of the body. Nerve blocks may also take the form of what is commonly called an epidural, in which a drug is administered into the space between the spine's protective covering (the dura) and the spinal column. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Epidural

"Epidural" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 61.22% of the time. "Epidural" is used about 49 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)	61.22%	30	63,341
Noun (singular)	38.78%	19	80,337
Total	100.00%	49	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Epidural

Expressions using "epidural": Epidural Abscess ♦ epidural anaesthesia ♦ epidural anesthesia ♦ epidural block ♦ Epidural Neoplasms ♦ Epidural Space. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epidural

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
epidural	324	epidural spinal injection	9
epidural steroid injection	98	walking epidural	9
epidural injection	64	cervical epidural steroid injection	8
epidural anaesthesia	47	epidural lumbar steroid injection	8
epidural hematoma	33	epidural headache	8
epidural steroid	30	blood patch epidural	8
epidural fibrosis	25	cortisone epidural	6
epidural block	22	epidural risk	6
epidural complication	19	epidural labor	6
epidural side effects	18	analgesia assessment epidural nursing pain postoperative	6
cervical epidural	16	bloqueo epidural	6
lumbar epidural	12	caudal epidural	6
spinal epidural	12	side effects of epidural steroid injection	5
lumbar epidural injection	12	epidural tattoo	5
epidural shot	11	epidural pump	5
back epidural pain	11	block epidural steroid	5
epidural abscess	11	epidural lipomatosis	4
cervical epidural injection	10	cortisone epidural injection	4
epidural analgesia	10	epidural space	4
epidural catheter	10	epidural injection side effects	4
epidural steriod injection	9	back epidural injection pain	4
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Modern Translations: Epidural

Language		Translations for "epidural"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		硬膜外. (various references)

Danish		extradural (extradural), epidural. (various references)

Dutch		extraduraal (extradural), epiduraal. (various references)

French		extradural, épidural, épidural. (various references)

German		epidural (extradural). (various references)

Greek		εξωσκληρίδιος (extradural), επισκληρίδιος (extradural). (various references)

Italian		extradurale (extradural), epidurale. (various references)

Pig Latin		epiduralay

Portuguese		extradural (extradural), epidural. (various references)

Spanish		extradural (extradural). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Epidural

Misspellings
	"Epidural" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: appadurai, epdural, epicural, epideral, epidular, Epidura, epidurally, epidurial, epidurmal, epimural, eprdural. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Epidural"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "epidural" (pronounced e'puder"ul)
3	-er" u l	deferral, referral, squirrel.
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Anagrams: Epidural

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: predial, uredial.
	-2 letters: aliped, ariled, audile, aulder, derail, dialer, diaper, elapid, laired, lauder, paired, palier, pardie, parled, pedlar, pleiad, pleura, purled, railed, redial, relaid, repaid, uredia.
	-3 letters: adieu, aider, ailed, aired, alder, ariel, aurei, deair, drail, drape, drupe, dulia, duper, duple, dural, ideal, idler, irade, lader, laird, liard, lidar, lured, lurid, padle, padre.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-p-r-u"
	+2 letters: pluralized, prudential.
	+3 letters: displeasure, popularised, popularized, prejudicial, reduplicate, unpolarized.
	+4 letters: appendicular, displeasures, disreputable, disreputably, prequalified, prudentially, quadriplegia, quadriplegic, reduplicated, reduplicates, subepidermal, underlapping, underplaying.
	+5 letters: perdurability, perpendicular, preindustrial, prejudicially, quadriplegias, quadriplegics, quadruplicate, recapitulated, reduplicating, reduplication, reduplicative, repopularized, spiritualized, superdiplomat, unpredictable, unpredictably.
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