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THORACOPLASTY

Definition: THORACOPLASTY

THORACOPLASTY

Noun

1. A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Thoracoplasty \Tho`ra*co*plas"ty\, noun. [Thorax plasty.]. (Websters 1913)


Usage Frequency: THORACOPLASTY

"THORACOPLASTY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THORACOPLASTY" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THORACOPLASTY

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

  thoracoplasty

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Modern Translations: THORACOPLASTY

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

Danish

  

thoracoplastik (plastic surgery of the chest). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

thoracoplastiek van Graf (Graf thoracoplasty), thoracoplastiek van Bernard (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty). (various references)

   

French

  

thoracoplastie partielle de Bernard-Bernou (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty), thoracoplastie partielle de Bernard (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty), thoracoplastie de Graf (Graf thoracoplasty). (various references)

   

German

  

Thorakoplastik (plastic surgery of the chest). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θωρακοπλαστική των Bernard-Bernou (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty), θωρακοπλαστική του Graf (Graf thoracoplasty), θωρακοπλαστική του Bernard (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty). (various references)

   

Italian

  

toracoplastica (plastic surgery of the chest). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oracoplastythay

   

Portuguese

  

toracoplastia de Graf (Graf thoracoplasty). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

toracoplastia de Graf (Graf thoracoplasty), toracoplastia de Bernard-Bernou (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty), toracoplastia de Bernard (Bernard thoracoplasty, Bernard-Bernou thoracoplasty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: THORACOPLASTY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-t-y"

-4 letters: calthrops, calyptras, crapshoot, placatory, saltatory.

-5 letters: apostacy, calathos, calthrop, caltraps, caltrops, calyptra, caporals, carpools, castrato, catalyst, cattalos, charpoys, copastor, crayolas, cryostat, locators, parashot, pastoral, playacts, polycots, postoral, potatory, potlatch, pyrostat, splotchy, stolport, taproots, thoracal, topcoats.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THORACOPLASTY


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

54 48 4F 52 41 43 4F 50 4C 41 53 54 59

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)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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Bibliographic Items: "THORACOPLASTY"


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