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Cannulation

Definition: Cannulation

Cannulation

Noun

1. The insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ.

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



Synonyms: Cannulation

Synonyms: cannulisation (n), cannulization (n), canulation (n), canulisation (n), canulization (n), intubation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cannulation

Specialty definitions using "cannulation": Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic RetrogradeHypophysectomy, ChemicalZygote Intrafallopian Transfer. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cannulation

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

High-quality cholangiography should be available in all centers, and experience in laparoscopic cannulation of the cystic duct should be part of the training of all surgeons performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cannulation

"Cannulation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cannulation" is used about 18 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%1882,615

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cannulation

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

cannulation

5

cannulation intravenous

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cannulation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-n-n-o-t-u"

-1 letter: annulation.

-2 letters: continual, inoculant.

-3 letters: cantonal, continua, countian, lunation, national, nautical.

-4 letters: actinal, actinon, alation, anconal, antlion, auction, cannoli, cannula, cantina, caution, contain, inconnu, inocula, linocut, lunatic, outlain, uncinal, unction.

-5 letters: action, actual, alanin, alnico, annual, annuli, anoint, atonal, atonic, cannon, cannot, canola, canton, canula, catalo, cation, catlin, citola, coital, incant, incult, lacuna, latino, nation, nounal, nuncio, oilcan, talion, tannic, tannin, tincal, toluic, toucan, tunica, uncial, uncoil, unnail.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-n-n-o-t-u"
 

+2 letters: uncontainable.

 

+3 letters: anticonvulsant, noneducational.

 

+4 letters: anticonvulsants, nonoccupational, pronunciational.

 

+5 letters: counterbalancing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cannulation


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

43 61 6E 6E 75 6C 61 74 69 6F 6E

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)

01000011 01100001 01101110 01101110 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#110 &#110 &#117 &#108 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006E 006E 0075 006C 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

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

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

3767808087786786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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