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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The acronym for photorefractive keratectomy which is a procedure involving the removal of the surface layer of the cornea (epithelium) by gentle scraping and use of a computer-controlled excimer laser to reshape the stroma. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PRK | English | Photo-refractive keratectomy | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | PRK was the first surgical procedure developed to reshape the cornea, by sculpting, using a laser. (references) | |
The same type of laser is used for LASIK and PRK. Often the exact same laser is used for the two types of surgery. (references) | ||
In PRK, the top layer of the cornea, called the epithelium, is scraped away to expose the stromal layer underneath. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cambodia | Vietnam's proposal to withdraw its remaining occupation forces in 1989-90--the result of ongoing international pressure--forced the PRK to begin economic and constitutional reforms in an attempt to ensure future political dominance. (references) |
Cambodia | At the same time, Vietnam continued efforts to strengthen its client regime, the PRK, and its military arm, the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (KPRAF). (references) | |
Cambodia | Resistance to Vietnam's occupation continued, and there was some evidence that Heng Samrin's PRK forces provided logistic and moral support to the guerrillas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "k-p-r" | |
+1 letter: park, perk, pork. | |
+2 letters: kreep, parka, parks, perks, perky, piker, poker, porks, porky, prank, prick, prink, spark. | |
+3 letters: impark, keeper, kipper, kreeps, markup, packer, parkas, parked, parker, pecker, perked, peruke, picker, pikers, pinker, pokers, pokier, porker, pranks, pricks, pricky, prinks, pucker, punker, repack, repark, reperk, sparks, sparky, spiker, workup. | |
+4 letters: airpark, barkeep, breakup, caprock, crackup, garpike, imparks, keepers, kippers, knapper, kouprey, krypton, markups, packers, palikar, paprika, parkers, parking, parkway, partake, partook, pawkier, peakier, peckers, peckier, perkier, perkily, perking, perkish, peruked, perukes, peskier, pickeer, pickers, pickier, pinkers, pinwork, pirojki, plinker, plucker, plunker, pockier, porkers, porkier, porkies, porkpie, pranked, prebake, prebook, precook, predusk, prepack, prerock, presoak, prework, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, prickly, prinked, prinker, provoke, puckers, puckery, pugmark, punkers, punkier, rampike, ranpike, repacks, reparks, reperks, respeak, respoke, skipper, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, sparkly, speaker, spikers, spikier, topwork, tripack, workups. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 4B |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. -.- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 004B |
| 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)505245 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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