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Gastroenterology

Definition: Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology

Noun

1. The branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Gastroenterology

DomainDefinitions

Health

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of the physiology and diseases of the digestive system and related structures (esophagus, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas). (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gastroenterology

DomainTitle

Books

  • Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Gastroenterology (reference)

  • Gastroenterology Nursing: A Core Curriculum (reference)

  • Gastroenterology Resident Pocket Survival Guide (reference)

  • Handbook of Gastroenterology (reference)

  • Manual of Equine Gastroenterology (reference)

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Periodicals

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Non-Fiction Usage: Gastroenterology

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This fact sheet was reviewed by Dr. Howard Trachtman of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Dr. Peter McNally of the American College of Gastroenterology, and Howard Sutter of the Food and Drug Administration. (references)

The research will need to involve a team that includes professionals trained in fields such as epidemiology, nutrition, surgery, general medicine, gastroenterology, cardiovascular-pulmonary medicine, psychiatry, and endocrinology. (references)

Conference participants included experts from many different fields, including osteoporosis and bone and dental health, nursing, dietetics, epidemiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, rheumatology, oncology, hypertension, nutrition and public education, and biostatistics, as well as representatives from the public. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

Specialist clinics have been designed for obstetrics and gynecology, infertility, obesity, internal medicine, gastroenterology and diabetology, physical medicine and sports medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology, ear-nose-throat and psychiatry. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Gastroenterology

"Gastroenterology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gastroenterology" is used about 38 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
Noun (singular)100%3855,818

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gastroenterology

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

gastroenterology

475

american college of gastroenterology

71

american journal of gastroenterology

43

gastroenterology journal

31

pediatric gastroenterology

26

gastroenterology job

17

minnesota gastroenterology

15

expert gastroenterology

10

jackson gastroenterology

9

journal of clinical gastroenterology

8
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Modern Translations: Gastroenterology

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

Chinese 

  

胃 病学. (various references)

   

Danish

  

medicinske mave-tarmsygdomme, medicinsk gastroenterologi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gastro-enterologie, maag-en darmziekten. (various references)

   

French

  

gastro-entérologie. (various references)

   

German

  

Gastro-Enterologie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γαστρεντερολογία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattie dell'apparato digerente della nutrizione e del ricambio. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

胃腸病学 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いちょうびょうがく. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astroenterologygay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gastroenterologia. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gastroenterología. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gastroenterologi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gastroenterology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-l-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-t-t-y"

-5 letters: geostrategy, gerontology.

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Alternative Orthography: Gastroenterology


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

47 61 73 74 72 6F 65 6E 74 65 72 6F 6C 6F 67 79

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)

01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#103 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 006F 0065 006E 0074 0065 0072 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079

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

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

41678586848171808671848178817391

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INDEX

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


  

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