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CONTRA-INDICATION

Specialty Definition: CONTRA-INDICATION

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Any factor or sign that it is unwise to pursue a certain kind of action or treatment, e. g. giving a general anaesthetic to a person with pneumonia. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CONTRA-INDICATION

"CONTRA-INDICATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONTRA-INDICATION" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Modern Translation: CONTRA-INDICATION

Language Translations for "CONTRA-INDICATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kontraindikation (contraindication). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

contra-indicatie (contraindication). (various references)

   

French

  

contre-indication (contraindication). (various references)

   

German

  

Kontraindikation (contraindication). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αντένδειξις (contraindication), αντένδειξη (contraindication). (various references)

   

Italian

  

controindicazione (contraindication). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontra-indicationcay

   

Portuguese

  

contra-indicação (contraindication). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contraindicación (contraindication). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CONTRA-INDICATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: contraindication.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-t-t"

-2 letters: indoctrination.

-3 letters: contradiction, incardination, ratiocination.

-5 letters: cardiotonic, coarctation, contraction, incantation, incarnation, noncontract.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: contraindications.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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