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Definition: Laparoscopy |
LaparoscopyNoun1. Laparotomy performed with a laparoscope that makes a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity (especially the ovaries and Fallopian tubes). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Examination, therapy or surgery of the abdomen's interior by means of a laparoscope. (references) |
Medicine | The examination of the pelvic region by using a laparoscope. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Health | In some cases, a laparoscopy may be necessary to confirm the diagnosis. (references) | |
During routine laparoscopy, the surgeon can cauterize small areas of endometriosis. (references) | ||
The safety and efficacy of laparoscopy for women with ovarian cancer should be studied. (references) | ||
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| "Laparoscopy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laparoscopy" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "laparoscopy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | laparoskopi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laparoscopie, coelioscopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laparoskopia, vatsaontelontähystys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | laparoscopie, péritonéoscopie, coelioscopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | laparoskopie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοιλιοσκοπία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | laparoscopia, celioscopia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 복강경 검사. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aparoscopylay laparoscopia. (various references) laparoscopia exploradora, laparoscopia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laparoscopy" (pronounced la'perÄ"skupē) |
| 6 | -Ä" s k u p ē | spectroscopy. |
| 5 | -s k u p ē | microscopy. |
| 3 | -u p ē | canopy, chemotherapy, entropy, gossipy, hydrotherapy, immunotherapy, philanthropy, psychotherapy, recipe, therapy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-y" | |
-3 letters: apocarps, apocarpy, apospory, caporals, carpools, crayolas, proposal. | |
-4 letters: apocarp, apropos, calypso, caporal, carpals, carpool, coppras, crayola, papyral, parasol, parlays, payolas, poplars, propyla, propyls, pyrolas, scrappy. | |
-5 letters: appals, calory, carols, carpal, claros, coalas, colors, copals, coppra, copras, corals, craals, crappy, lascar, orlops, papacy, parlay, parols, pascal, payola, payors, playas, polars, polyps, poorly, poplar, propyl, pyrola, rascal, royals, sacral, salary, saloop, scalar, scroop, sloppy, sporal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-o-o-p-p-r-s-y" | |
+3 letters: parapsychology. | |
+5 letters: parapsychologies, parapsychologist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 70 61 72 6F 73 63 6F 70 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .--. .- .-. --- ... -.-. --- .--. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110000 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a p a r o s c o p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0070 0061 0072 006F 0073 0063 006F 0070 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667826784818569818291 |
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