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Xylocaine

Definition: Xylocaine

Xylocaine

Noun

1. A local anesthetic (trade names Lidocaine and Xylocaine) used topically on the skin and mucous membranes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Xylocaine

Synonym: lidocaine (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Xylocaine

English words defined with "Xylocaine": lidocaine. (references)

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Modern Usage: Xylocaine

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm gonna find the guy who invented Xylocaine and kiss his ass on Hollywood and Vine! (Hooper; writing credit: Walt Green; Walter S. Herndon)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Xylocaine

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

xylocaine

81

xylocaine viscous

6

xylocaine jelly

5

xylocaine mpf

2

spray xylocaine

2

2 jelly xylocaine

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

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Anagrams: Xylocaine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-x-y"

-2 letters: acyloin, lexicon.

-3 letters: aeonic, alexin, alnico, anoxic, axenic, axonic, cineol, claxon, enolic, eolian, exonic, inlace, lexica, nicely, oilcan, oxalic, xenial.

-4 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, anile, anole, axile, axion, axone, calix, calyx, canoe, clean, cline, clone, coaly, colin, coney, coxae, coxal, cyano, cylix, elain, eloin, ileac, inlay, lacey, lance, liane, linac, liney, lycea.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-x-y"
 

+3 letters: exclusionary.

 

+4 letters: exceptionably, exceptionally, intoxicatedly.

 

+5 letters: exceptionality, xenophobically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Xylocaine


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

58 79 6C 6F 63 61 69 6E 65

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)

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

01011000 01111001 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#88 &#121 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0058 0079 006C 006F 0063 0061 0069 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

589178816967758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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