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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Describes the fluid-filled space between the thin layers of tissue that cover the brain and spinal cord. Drugs can be injected into the fluid or a sample of the fluid can be removed for testing. (references) |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Illustration of Omaya valve implanted to instill medicine into brain. Intrathecal. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Intrathecal (IT) catheter. (references) | |
To reach cancer cells in the central nervous system (CNS), the patient may receive intrathecal chemotherapy. (references) | ||
Doctors also inject anticancer drugs into the spinal fluid (intrathecal, or IT) to treat brain tumors and to prevent central nervous system disease in leukemia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INTRATHECAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INTRATHECAL" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "INTRATHECAL": intrathecal chemotherapy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
intrathecal | 29 |
intrathecal baclofen | 17 |
intrathecal pump | 13 |
intrathecal morphine pump | 8 |
intrathecal baclofen pump | 8 |
intrathecal morphine | 5 |
catheter intrathecal | 3 |
intrathecal narcotic | 3 |
intrathecal drug delivery | 3 |
chemotherapy intrathecal | 2 |
intrathecal labor | 2 |
injection intrathecal | 2 |
intrathecal pain pump | 2 |
analgesia intrathecal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INTRATHECAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | intrathekal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | intrathecaal (intrathecal drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kovakalvonsisäinen (intrathecal drug), kovakalvonalainen (intrathecal drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | intrathécal (intrathecal drug), intrathécal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | intrathekal (intrathecal drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενδορραχιαίος (intraspinal, intrathecal drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | intratecale (intrathecal drug). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | intrathecalay intratecal. (various references) intratecal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INTRATHECAL": intrathecally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: anthracite, theatrical. | |
-2 letters: chatelain, clathrate, theriacal. | |
-3 letters: achenial, alterant, analcite, anthelia, antheral, athletic, attacher, attainer, carinate, chattier, clarinet, craniate, ethnical, hatteria, interact, laitance, reactant, reattach, reattain, tailrace, tantalic, tarletan, theatric, theriaca, thetical, tracheal, tractile. | |
-4 letters: acanthi, acarine, actinal, anticar, archine, arietta, article, attache, calathi, canthal, carinae, carinal, carline, cateran, cattail, cattier, central, ceratin, certain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-n-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: intrathecally, nontheatrical, parenthetical. | |
+4 letters: antitheoretical, merchantability, orchestrational, parenthetically, theatricalizing. | |
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