Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Urology |
UrologyNoun1. The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the urinary tract or urogenital system. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | FG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A surgical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract in both sexes and the genital tract in the male. It includes the specialty of andrology which addresses both male genital diseases and male infertility. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Links moved from medicine, to be sorted and explained: Prostatitis -- Cystitis -- Prostate cancer -- Bladder stones -- Bladder cancer
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Urology."
Synonym: UrologySynonym: urogenital medicine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Urology |
| English words defined with "urology": Ourology ♦ urologist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urology": Impotence, Vasculogenic ♦ Ultrasonography, Interventional. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Periodicals | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You can also get help from a urology or continence nurse. (references) | |
Dolores J. Lamb, associate professor of urology and cell biology at the Baylor College of Medicine, and colleagues have shown that a mutated androgen receptor (AR) gene can be activated by an enzyme in the absence of androgen, indicating that alternative signaling pathways may activate tumorigenesis. (references) | ||
To examine what is known about the demographics, etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, diagnostic assessment, treatments (both generic and cause-specific), and the understanding of their consequences by the public and the medical community, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the Office of Medical Applications of Research of the National Institutes of Health, in conjunction with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute on Aging, convened a consensus development conference on male impotence on December 7-9, 1992. After 1 1/2 days of presentations by experts in the relevant fields involved with male sexual dysfunction and erectile impotence or dysfunction, a consensus panel comprised of representatives from urology, geriatrics, medicine, endocrinology, psychiatry, psychology, nursing, epidemiology, biostatistics, basic sciences, and the public considered the evidence and developed answers to the questions that follow. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | Another hospital, Serdang Hospital, which is expected to be operational in 2004, will be the reference center for cardiology, cardiothoracic, urology and nephrology surgery. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Urology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Urology" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
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 "urology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urologji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علم أمراض المسالك البولية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | урология. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 泌尿学. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | urologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urologi (genito-urinary medicine), urinvejenes kirurgiske sygdomme (genito-urinary medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | urologie (genito urinary surgery, genito-urinary medicine, urological surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | urologie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Urologie (genito-urinary medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ουρολογία (genito-urinary medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אורולו'י". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | urológia (urinology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | urologia (genito-urinary medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 泌尿器科 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひにょうきか. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비뇨기과. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ologyuray urologia (genito-urinary medicine). (various references) урология (urinology). (various references) urologija. (various references) urologia (genito-urinary medicine), urología. (various references) urologi. (various references) bevliye, üroloji. (various references) урологія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "urology": futurology, neurology. (additional references) | |
| |
"Urology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Orologio, Reologi, ufology, ufrology, uology, Urola, urolgoy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urology" (pronounced yerÄ"lujē) |
| 6 | -er Ä" l u j ē | meteorology, mineralogy, numerology. |
| 5 | -Ä" l u j ē | anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, virology, zoology. |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-o-o-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: glory, loury, ology. | |
-3 letters: gory, gyro, logo, logy, lory, lour, orgy, ruly, ugly, your. | |
-4 letters: goo, gor, goy, gul, guy, log, loo, lug, our, rug, you. | |
-5 letters: go, lo, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-o-o-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: neurology. | |
+3 letters: futurology, gloriously, gorgeously, numerology, rigorously, thoroughly, urbanology, vigorously. | |
+4 letters: congruously, glamorously. | |
+5 letters: clangorously, courageously, fluorography, hygrophilous, ingloriously, languorously, liturgiology, neurobiology, outrageously, prodigiously, rheumatology. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
