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OESOPHAGEAL

Definition: OESOPHAGEAL

OESOPHAGEAL

Adjective

1. Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: OESOPHAGEAL

English words defined with "OESOPHAGEAL": oesophageal reflux, oesophageal veins. (references)
Specialty definitions using "OESOPHAGEAL": oesophageal acid perfusion test, oesophageal manometry, oesophageal varix. (references)

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Commercial Usage: OESOPHAGEAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Clinician's Guide to Oesophageal Disease (reference)

  • Fundamental Techniques in Pulmonary and Oesophageal Surgery (reference)

  • Gastrointestinal and Oesophageal Pathology (reference)

  • Histological typing of gastric and oesophageal tumours (reference)

  • Practical Management of Oesophageal Disease (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: OESOPHAGEAL

"OESOPHAGEAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.41% of the time. "OESOPHAGEAL" is used about 845 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
Adjective (general or positive)99.41%8408,369
Noun (proper)0.59%5157,705
                    Total100.00%845N/A

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

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Expressions: OESOPHAGEAL

Expressions using "OESOPHAGEAL": oesophageal acid perfusion test oesophageal manometry oesophageal pH monitoring oesophageal pH test oesophageal reflux oesophageal varix oesophageal veins. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "OESOPHAGEAL": oesophageal-ph.

Ending with "OESOPHAGEAL": gastro-oesophageal, tracheo-oesophageal.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OESOPHAGEAL

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

  oesophageal varices

3

  oesophageal spasm

2

  oesophageal reflux

2

  oesophageal cancer

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: OESOPHAGEAL

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

Danish

  

oesophagicus, oesophageus, esofagus-, øsofagus-. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

oesophagicus. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varices oesophagi (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), ruokatorven umpeuma (esophageal atresia, oesophageal atresia), ruokatorven suonikohjut (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), ruokatorven pH:n mittaus (esophageal pH monitoring, esophageal pH test, oesophageal pH monitoring, oesophageal pH test), ruokatorven paineenmittaukset (esophageal manometry, manometry, oesophageal manometry), ruokatorven manometria (esophageal manometry, manometry, oesophageal manometry), ruokatorven laskimonlaajentumat (esophageal varicose vein, esophageal varix, oesophageal varix), ruokatorven gammakuvaus (esophageal scintigraphy, oesophageal scintigraphy), ruokatorven atresia (esophageal atresia, oesophageal atresia), megaesofagus (achalasia, esophageal achalasia, oesophageal achalasia), jättiruokatorvi (achalasia, esophageal achalasia, oesophageal achalasia), happoperfuusiotesti (Bernstein acid perfusion test, Bernstein test, esophageal acid perfusion test, oesophageal acid perfusion test), Bernsteinin testi (Bernstein acid perfusion test, Bernstein test, esophageal acid perfusion test, oesophageal acid perfusion test), atresia oesophagi (esophageal atresia, oesophageal atresia). (various references)

   

French

  

oesophagien. (various references)

   

German

  

oesophagicus, oesophageus. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οισοφαγικός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

esofageo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oesophagealay

   

Portuguese

  

esofágico. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

esofágico. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yemek borusu ile ilgili. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: OESOPHAGEAL

Derivations

Words ending with "OESOPHAGEAL": gastroesophageal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: OESOPHAGEAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-l-o-o-p-s"

-1 letter: esophageal.

-4 letters: apogeal, apogees, apologs, galoshe, gasohol, goloshe, hooplas, pelages, phaseal.

-5 letters: alephs, alohas, alphas, apogee, apolog, asleep, aslope, eagles, elapse, elopes, galahs, galeae, galeas, galops, galosh, golosh, gospel, haloes, haoles, hoopla, paleae, peages, pelage, phages, plages, please, saloop, salpae, spahee.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-l-o-o-p-s"
 

+5 letters: gastroesophageal, paleogeographies, paleopathologies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OESOPHAGEAL


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

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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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "OESOPHAGEAL"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "OESOPHAGEAL"

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