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Definition: Ileostomy |
IleostomyNoun1. Surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Surgical creation of an external opening into the ileum for fecal diversion or drainage. Loop or tube procedures are most often employed. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ileostomy |
| Specialty definitions using "ileostomy": Continent Ileostomy. (references) |
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Health | An alternative to the Brooke ileostomy is the continent ileostomy. (references) | |
An infant who has long-segment disease requiring an ileostomy may need special tube feedings. (references) | ||
One of several surgeries may be done. The most common surgery is a proctocolectomy with ileostomy, which is done in two stages. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ileostomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ileostomy" is used about 44 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% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ileostomy": Continent Ileostomy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ileostomy": Jejuno-ileostomy, uretero-ileostomy. | |
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| 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 |
ileostomy | 121 |
ileostomy supply | 12 |
ileostomy reversal | 6 |
ileostomy care | 5 |
ileostomy surgery | 5 |
ileostomy loop | 4 |
diet ileostomy | 4 |
continent ileostomy | 4 |
ileostomy picture | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "ileostomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | ileostomi. (various references) | |
Dutch | ileostomie. (various references) | |
Finnish | ileostooman teko, ileostomia, sykkyräsuoliavanteen teko. (various references) | |
French | iléostomie. (various references) | |
German | Ileostomie. (various references) | |
Greek | ειλεοστομία. (various references) | |
Italian | ileostomia (iliac anus, iliac preternatural anus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ileostomyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ileostomia. (various references) | |
Spanish | ileostomía. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: otiosely, toilsome. | |
-2 letters: moistly, mooleys, motiles, motleys, myosote, oolites, ostiole, sootily, stoolie. | |
-3 letters: limeys, looeys, looies, moiety, molest, molies, mooley, mostly, motels, motile, motley, oolite, osmole, ostomy, otiose, smiley, somite, stymie, timely, toiles. | |
-4 letters: emits, islet, istle, items, limes, limey, limos, looey, looie, looms, loose, loots, lotos, melts, metis, miles, milos, milts, milty, misty, mites, moils, moist, moles, molto, molts, mools, moose, moots, mosey, moste, motel, motes, motey, oleos, olios, omits, osmol, silty, slime, slimy, smelt, smile, smite, smolt, smote, solei, sooey, sooty, sotol, stile, stime, stimy, stole, stool, style, styli, teloi, telos, tiles, times, toile, toils, toles, tomes, tools, toyos, yetis, ylems. | |
-5 letters: elms, elmy, emit, isle, item, leis, lest, lets, leys, lies, lime, limo, limy, list, lite, lits, loom, loos, loot, lose, lost, loti, lots, lyes, lyse, mels, melt, mile, milo, mils, milt, mise, miso, mist, mite, mity, moil, mole, mols, molt, moly, mool, moos, moot, most, mote, mots, oils, oily, oleo, oles, olio, omit, oots, oyes, semi, silo, silt, site, slim, slit, sloe, slot, smit, soil, sole, soli, solo, some, soot, stem, stey, stye, syli, tels, ties, tile, tils, time, toes, toil, tole, tome, toms, tool, toom, toyo, toys, tyes, yeti, ylem. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: toilsomely, xylotomies. | |
+2 letters: compositely, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, mythologies. | |
+3 letters: embryologist, enzymologist, epistemology, etymologised, etymologises, etymologists, etymologizes, motionlessly, mythologizes. | |
+4 letters: coterminously, embryologists, emotionlessly, enzymologists, etymologising, homosexuality, martyrologies, meritoriously, myrmecologist, mythologizers, osteomyelitis, poliomyelitis, polychotomies, sedimentology, tonsillectomy. | |
+5 letters: conterminously, contumeliously, demythologizes, myrmecologists, polymerisation, remythologizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 65 6F 73 74 6F 6D 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01100101 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l e o s t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 0065 006F 0073 0074 006F 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437871818586817991 |
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