LITHOTRIPSY, LASER

  

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LITHOTRIPSY, LASER

Specialty Definition: LITHOTRIPSY, LASER

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Health

Fragmentation of calculi, notably urinary or biliary, by laser. It is usually performed with an endoscopically guided pulsed tunable dye laser, a combination of a pulsed laser and a dye laser usually referred to as a pulsed dye laser. It is both safe and effective when extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is infeasible or unsuccessful. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LITHOTRIPSY, LASER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ",-a-e-h-i-i-l-l-o-p-r-r-s-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: hairsplitters.

-5 letters: artillerists, hairsplitter, philatelists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LITHOTRIPSY, LASER


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

4C 49 54 48 4F 54 52 49 50 53 59 2C      4C 41 53 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001001 01010100 01001000 01001111 01010100 01010010 01001001 01010000 01010011 01011001 00101100 00100000 01001100 01000001 01010011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#80 &#83 &#89 &#44 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0054 0048 004F 0054 0052 0049 0050 0053 0059 002C      004C 0041 0053 0045 0052

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

46435442495452435053591424635533952

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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