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EXTRACORPOREAL

Specialty Definition: EXTRACORPOREAL

DomainDefinition

Health

Situated or occurring outside the body. (references)

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

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Crosswords: EXTRACORPOREAL

Specialty definitions using "EXTRACORPOREAL": ECMO, ESWLHemofiltration, HemoperfusionLithotripsy, LaserPerfusion, RegionalSorption Detoxification. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EXTRACORPOREAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Anaesthetic and Extracorporeal Gas Transfer (Oxford Medical Engineering Series, 9) (reference)

  • Basic Aspects of Blood Trauma: A Workshop Symposium on Basic Aspects of Blood Trauma in Extracorporeal Oxygenation Held at Stolberg Near Aachen, Fede (reference)

  • Biological Reactions Within the Extracorporeal Blood Circuit During Hemodialysis (Contributions to Nephrology, Vol 59) (reference)

  • Current Perspectives of the Extracorporeal Circulation (reference)

  • Extracorporeal Life Support (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: EXTRACORPOREAL

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the most frequently used procedure for the treatment of kidney stones. (references)

Given that patients who recover from this syndrome do so rapidly, cardiovascular support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), has been tried. (references)

For large common bile duct stones that defy conventional extraction methods, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy or contact laser techniques may be successful in fragmenting the stone prior to subsequent removal. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

Examples include equipment for diagnostic imaging, physiotherapy, radiotherapy, cardiovascular products such as pacemakers and angiography catheters and apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: EXTRACORPOREAL

"EXTRACORPOREAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXTRACORPOREAL" is used about 35 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3558,339

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

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Expressions: EXTRACORPOREAL

Expressions using "EXTRACORPOREAL": extracorporeal chemotherapy Extracorporeal Circulation Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXTRACORPOREAL

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

extracorporeal shock wave therapy

28

extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy

10

extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

9

extracorporeal shock wave

5

extracorporeal circulation

3

extracorporeal

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EXTRACORPOREAL

Language Translations for "EXTRACORPOREAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

extrakorporal. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

extracorporaal. (various references)

   

French

  

extracorporelle (circulation-). (various references)

   

German

  

extrakorporal. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξωσωματική κυκλοφορία (artificial blood shunt, by-pass, extracorporeal blood circulation, extracorporeal circulation). (various references)

   

Italian

  

extracorporeo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

extracorporealay

   

Portuguese

  

extracorporal. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

quimioterapia fuera del cuerpo (extracorporeal chemotherapy), litotripsia extracorporal con onda de choque (Extracorporeal Shock-Waves Lithotripsy), circulación extracorporal (artificial blood shunt, by-pass, extracorporeal blood circulation, extracorporeal circulation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EXTRACORPOREAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXTRACORPOREAL": extracorporeally. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EXTRACORPOREAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-r-t-x"

-4 letters: coleoptera, correlator, percolator, procreator.

-5 letters: acropetal, carpooler, cooperate, corporate, corporeal, correlate, excerptor, execrator, percolate, procreate.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-r-t-x"
 

+2 letters: extracorporeally.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXTRACORPOREAL


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

45 58 54 52 41 43 4F 52 50 4F 52 45 41 4C

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)

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

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

01000101 01011000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001111 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#79 &#82 &#80 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0054 0052 0041 0043 004F 0052 0050 004F 0052 0045 0041 004C

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

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

3958545235374952504952393546

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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