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Definition: Chiropractor |
ChiropractorNoun1. A therapist who practices chiropractic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A specialist in chiropractic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Diagnoses and treats musculoskeletal conditions of spinal column and extremities to prevent disease and correct abnormalities of body believed to be caused by interference with nervous system: Examines patient to determine nature and extent of disorder. Performs diagnostic procedures including physical, neurologic, and orthopedic examinations, laboratory tests, and other procedures, using x-ray machine, proctoscope, electrocardiograph, otoscope, and other instruments and equipment. Manipulates spinal column and other extremities to adjust, align, or correct abnormalities caused by neurologic and kinetic articular dysfunction. Utilizes supplementary measures, such as exercise, rest, water, light, heat, and nutritional therapy. (references) |
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Crosswords: Chiropractor |
| Specialty definitions using "chiropractor": CHIROPRACTOR ASSISTANT. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, since you still haven't told me what exactly it is that you do, I'm gonna go with yoga instructor or chiropractor. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anal Chiropractor (1995) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Crack; pop; adjusting; adjustment; chiropractor; chiropractic; spine; spinal; bones; bone; . |
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| "Chiropractor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chiropractor" is used about 23 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% | 23 | 72,767 |
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 "chiropractor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | المعالج للأمراض يدويا. (various references) | |
Chinese | 按摩医". (various references) | |
Czech | chiropraktik. (various references) | |
French | chiropracteur. (various references) | |
German | chiropraktiker. (various references) | |
Greek | χειροπράκτορασ (osteopath). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hátgerincmasszázzsal gyógyító (chiropractic), csontrakó (chiropractic, osteopath). (various references) | |
Italian | chiroterapeuta, chiropratico. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カーボン紙 (black currant, cacao, cactus, Caesar, Cairo, car lease, car life, car race, car radio, carbon paper, carcase, carcass, Carlton, carmine, carport, Casio, Cassiopeia, Cassisliqueur, chaos, chiropractic, cocktail, cocktail dress, cocktail glass, cocktail lounge, cocktail party, couch potato, counseling, counselor, count, countdown, counter, counter attack, counter display, counterblow, counter-propagation, counterpunch, counterpurchase, count-out, cowboy, cowboy hat, cowhide, curl, Curlash, curler, curling, curve, Kahn, Kaiser, Kamasutra, Kashmir, kinesics, kite, kymograph, rustle, television addict). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カイロプラター . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iropractorchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quiroprático. (various references) | |
Russian | костоправ (bone-setter, sawbones). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kiropraktor. (various references) | |
Spanish | quiropráctico, quiromante, me/dico quiropra/ctico. (various references) | |
Swedish | kiropraktor. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chiropractor": chiropractors. (additional references) | |
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"Chiropractor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chiropactor, chiropracator, chiropracter, chriopractor, ciropractor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chiropractor" (pronounced kī"rupra'kter) |
| 5 | -r a' k t er | contractor, subcontractor. |
| 4 | -a' k t er | benefactor, malefactor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, character, collector, compactor, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, defector, detector, detractor, director, doctor, erector, factor, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, reactor, rector, refractor, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, superconductor, tractor, vector, Victor. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-i-o-o-p-r-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: prothoracic. | |
-4 letters: atrophic, carritch, parritch, phratric, thoracic, trochaic. | |
-5 letters: acrotic, airport, aphotic, apricot, aprotic, carport, carroch, chaotic, chariot, coactor, cochair, corpora, haricot, parotic, picacho, portico, practic, proctor, trochar, trophic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-i-o-o-p-r-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: chiropractors. | |
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