GAMMA KNIFE

  

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GAMMA KNIFE

Specialty Definition: GAMMA KNIFE

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Health

Radiation therapy in which high-energy rays are aimed at a tumor from many angles in a single treatment session. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: GAMMA KNIFE

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Books

  • Gamma Knife Brain Surgery (Progress in Neurological Surgery, Vol. 14) (reference)

  • Gamma Knife Surgery (reference)

  • Leksel Gamma Knife Society: Proceedings (reference)

  • Leksell Gamma Knife Society: 8th International Meeting, Marseille, June 1997 - Proceedings (Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (reference)

  • Proceedings of the 1992 Meeting of the Leksell Gamma Knife Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 7-9, 1992 (Stereotactic and Functional neurosurgery (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: GAMMA KNIFE

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Health

Despite its name, the gamma knife does not require a surgical incision. (references)

The gamma knife, used for a procedure known technically as stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery, combines precise stereotactic guidance and a sharply focused beam of radiation energy to deliver a single, precise dose of radiation. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GAMMA KNIFE

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

gamma knife

184

gamma knife surgery

22

gamma knife radiation

10

gamma knife radiosurgery

7

gamma knife center

5

gamma knife procedure

5

effects gamma knife side

5

gamma knife treatment

4

gamma knife leksell

2

gamma knife neuralgia trigeminal

2

center gamma knife surgery

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GAMMA KNIFE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-k-m-m-n"

-4 letters: ammine, anemia, enigma, faking, famine, faming, fanega, gamine, immane, kinema, magian, making, manage.

-5 letters: again, amain, amiga, amine, amnia, anima, anime, eking, faena, fagin, fanga, feign, gamin, gamma, ganef, gemma, gimme, image, kenaf, kiang, knife, mafia, magma, mamie, mange, mania, minae, minke.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GAMMA KNIFE


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

47 41 4D 4D 41      4B 4E 49 46 45

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

    

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

01000111 01000001 01001101 01001101 01000001 00100000 01001011 01001110 01001001 01000110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#77 &#77 &#65 &#32 &#75 &#78 &#73 &#70 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 004D 004D 0041      004B 004E 0049 0046 0045

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

413547473524548434039

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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