Catgut

Definitions: Catgut

Catgut

Noun

1. Perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone.

2. A strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery.

Date "catgut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Note: Catgut \Cat"gut`\, noun. [Cat gut.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Material made of twisted intestines of sheep, horse or ass. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	Sterile collagen strands obtained from healthy mammals. They are used as absorbable surgical ligatures and are frequently impregnated with chromium or silver for increased strength. They tend to cause tissue reaction. (references)
Literature	Catgut A contracted form of cattlegut, especially sheep. Another form is catling-gut, i.e. cattle-ing gut. In Gen. xxx. 40 we read that Jacob did separate "his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle [i.e. sheep]." Again, in xxxi. 9, Jacob said, "God hath taken away the cattle [sheep and lambs] of your father, and given them to me;" and verse 43 he says, "These cattle [sheep and lambs] are my cattle." Musical strings never were made from the gut of a cat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Catgut

Synonyms: goat's rue (n), gut (n), wild sweet pea (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Catgut

English words defined with "catgut": Battledoor ♦ Fiddlestring ♦ snare drum, suture ♦ Viola di amore. (references)

Specialty definitions using "catgut": Catgut Scraper, chromic catgut, chromicized catgut ♦ GUT SCRAPER, gut winder ♦ Misnomers ♦ string drive, string drive for involute motion, SUTURE WINDER, HAND ♦ TORMENTER OF CATGUT, TORMENTOR of CATGUT. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Catgut" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (gut), French (catgut), Italian (catgut), Romanian (catgut, gut).

Domain	Title
Periodicals	Catgut Acoustical Society Journal (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Catgut Flambo (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		There are also some small firms manufacturing orthopedic devices and disposable medical supplies, including catgut and syringes. (references)
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"Catgut" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Catgut" is used about 8 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 (proper)	50%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	50%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Expressions using "catgut": chromic catgut ♦ chromicized catgut ♦ sterile surgical catgut. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "catgut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zorrë (bowel, casing, entrails, gut, hose, intestine), tejzë (cord, sinew, tendon, thews), kordë (chord, chorda, cord, gut). (various references)

Arabic		‏وتر (bow, chord, cord, gut, nerve, sinew, snare, strain, string, tauten, tendon, tense, tension). (various references)

Bulgarian		струна (chord, cord, string, wire), корда (chord, cord), катгут (gut). (various references)

Czech		struna (chord, string). (various references)

Danish		catgut. (various references)

Dutch		catgut. (various references)

Farsi		زه (Chord, Cord, Gut), روده گربه برای بخیه زدن درجراحی . (various references)

Finnish		suolijänne, katgutti. (various references)

French		catgut. (various references)

German		darmsaite (catgut string, gut string), katgut. (various references)

Greek		χορδή από έντερο, χορδή (chord, cord, fiddle string, string). (various references)

Hebrew		חוט מעים, �'י�" תפיר�" (gut). (various references)

Hungarian		bélhúr (gut, gutstring). (various references)

Italian		catgut. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腸線 (sheepgut), 絃線 , 天蚕糸 (silkworm gut). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�'�"せ�" (careful selection, nuclear submarine, source), てぐす (silkworm gut), ちょうせ�" (challenge, defiance, Korea, sheepgut). (various references)

Pig Latin		atgutcay

Portuguese		corda de tripa, pontos naturais, "cat-gut". (various references)

Romanian		coardã de maţ de oaie, catgut (gut). (various references)

Russian		кетгут (gut). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ketgut (catling). (various references)

Spanish		cuerda de tripa (gut), catgut, cadena de tripa. (various references)

Swedish		tarmsträng, kattgutt, katgut. (various references)

Turkish		kiriş (balk, baulk, beam, bowstring, chord, girder, gut, joist, ligament, rafter, rib, sinew, span, string, stringcourse, Stringer, tendinous, tendon, tie, tie beam, timber, traverse, wire). (various references)

Ukranian		струнні інструменти, скрипка (violin), кетгут, кишкова струна, бортівка (crinoline). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	khorde. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	corda, cordis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "catgut": catguts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Catgut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ketut, Ratgut. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: gutta.
	-2 letters: tact, taut.
	-3 letters: act, att, cat, cut, gat, gut, tag, tat, tau, tug, tut, uta.
	-4 letters: ag, at, ta, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: catguts, cuttage.
	+2 letters: cuttages.
	+3 letters: actuating, curettage, outacting, outcaught.
	+4 letters: acquitting, curettages, eructating, scattergun, truncating, urticating.
	+5 letters: catapulting, commutating, cultivating, fluctuating, fungistatic, gesticulant, gesticulate, haircutting, micturating, outcatching, outcheating, outmatching, outwatching, punctuating, reluctating, rusticating, scatterguns, stagestruck, subtracting.
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