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Definition: Gastrectomy |
GastrectomyNoun1. Surgical removal of all or part of the stomach. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | An operation to remove all or part of the stomach. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Gastrectomy |
| Specialty definitions using "gastrectomy": afferent loop syndrome ♦ dumping syndrome ♦ Gastric Stump ♦ Postgastrectomy Syndromes. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gastrectomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gastrectomy" is used about 46 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% | 46 | 50,285 |
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 |
gastrectomy | 47 |
gastrectomy total | 8 |
gastrectomy subtotal | 4 |
diet gastrectomy | 2 |
gastrectomy polya | 2 |
gastrectomy partial | 2 |
bilroth gastrectomy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gastrectomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | resektion af mavesaekken. (various references) | |
Dutch | gastrectomie. (various references) | |
French | gastrectomie. (various references) | |
German | Magenresektion. (various references) | |
Greek | γαστρεκτομή. (various references) | |
Italian | gastrectomia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astrectomygay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gastrectomia (gastroenterostomy). (various references) | |
Swedish | gastrektomi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-m-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: astrocyte, cottagers. | |
-3 letters: category, cometary, costmary, cottager, cottages, cottagey, cryostat, cytaster, escargot, garottes, gyrostat, strategy, sycamore. | |
-4 letters: cargoes, cattery, coaster, coaters, comates, corsage, costate, cottage, cottars, cotters, garotes, garotte, grayest, gyrates, maestro, mastery, matters, mattery, orgeats, rotates, scatter, sectary, smatter, socager, stomate, storage, streamy, targets, testacy, toaster, tomcats, yatters. | |
-5 letters: actors, argosy, argots, armets, cagers, cameos, carets, cargos, caroms, cartes, caster, castor, caters, coarse, coater, comate, comers, comets, comtes, corset, costae, costar, coster, cottae, cottar, cottas, cotter, coyest, crates, creams, creamy, creasy, cymars, cymose, ergots, escort, estray, gamers, gamest, garote, gaster, gators, gayest, gemots, graces, grates, greasy, greats, groats, grotty, gyrase, gyrate, gyrose, macers, macros, magots, marges, mascot, master, maters, mateys, matres, matter, mattes, mayest, mayors, metros, morays, motets, mottes, oaters, octets, omegas, orates, orgasm, orgeat, ottars, otters, oyster, ramets, ramose, reacts, recast, rectos, retags, rotate, rottes, scarey, scatty, scoter, scream, scrota, sector, smarty, smeary, socage, stacte, stager, stagey, stater, stator, stayer, steamy, stogey, storey, stormy, stream, stroma, tamers, tamest, targes, target, tarocs, tarots, taster, taters, tetras, toasty, togate, tomcat, tortes, totems, toters, toyers, traces, tracts, treats, treaty, tryste, yagers, yarest, yatter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-m-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+5 letters: microgametocytes, syncategorematic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 73 74 72 65 63 74 6F 6D 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .- ... - .-. . -.-. - --- -- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a s t r e c t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 0065 0063 0074 006F 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4167858684716986817991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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