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Definition: Cardia |
CardiaNoun1. The opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Cardia \Car"di*a\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression heart, or upper orifice of the stomach.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | That part of the stomach surrounded by the esophagogastric junction, characterized by the lack of acid-forming cells. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cardia |
| English words defined with "cardia": left gastric vein ♦ vena gastrica sinistra. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cardia": Hemicardia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cardia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (cardia). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There is no association in any of these studies between H. pylori infection and cancer in the gastric cardia and gastroesophageal junction, which is increasing in incidence in the United States. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cardia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.18% of the time. "Cardia" is used about 55 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) | 98.18% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cardia | 33 |
cardia salt | 7 |
achalasia cardia management | 4 |
cardia xt | 3 |
alternative cardia salt | 2 |
cardia gastric | 2 |
cardia ian love | 2 |
brady cardia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cardia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Farsi | پیشوندی بمعنی>دل<یا>قلب<است . (various references) | ||||
French | cardia. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | gyomorszáj (pit of the stomach). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 噴門 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ふ"も". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ardiacay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cardia": cardiac, cardiacs, cardiae, cardias. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cardia": bradycardia, endocardia, epicardia, myocardia, pericardia, tachycardia. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cardia": bradycardias, endocardial, epicardial, intracardiac, intracardial, intracardially, myocardial, noncardiac, pericardial, tachycardias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cardia" (pronounced kÄ"rdēu) |
| 6 | k Ä" r d ē u | bradycardia. |
| 3 | -d ē u | Arcadia, chlamydia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia, media, multimedia, odea, plasmodia, Scandia, stadia. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: acarid. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-r" | |
-1 letter: acari, acrid, caird, daric. | |
-2 letters: acid, aria, arid, cadi, caid, card, raia, raid. | |
-3 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ai, ar, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-r" | |
+1 letter: acarids, acaroid, arcadia, ascarid, carabid, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, faradic, radical. | |
+2 letters: acaridan, aciduria, arachnid, arcadian, arcadias, arcading, ascarids, caldaria, carabids, carangid, cardiacs, cardigan, cardinal, caryatid, chadarim, characid, drachmai, dramatic, faradaic, radiance, radiancy, radicals, radicand, radicate. | |
+3 letters: abdicator, acaricide, acaridans, acidurias, acierated, androecia, arachnids, arachnoid, arcadians, arcadings, archaised, archaized, ascarides, barricade, barricado, cadaveric, caldarium, carangids, carbamide, cardigans, cardinals, carinated, caryatids, characids, circadian, cnidarian, cuadrilla, draconian, dramatics, dyscrasia, epicardia, eradicate, miracidia, myocardia, paramedic, picofarad, quadratic, radiances, radically, radicands, radicated, radicates, radicular. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 64 69 61 |
| 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)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 0061 |
| 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)376784707567 |
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