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Definition: Defibrillator |
DefibrillatorNoun1. An electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Defibrillator |
| English words defined with "defibrillator": defibrillation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "defibrillator": emt-paramedic. (references) |
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Health | The defibrillator is surgically placed inside the patient's chest. (references) | |
The benefit or utility is estimated as a function of quality of life over time. On this basis, cochlear implantation whether at age 45 years or 70 years compares quite favorably to many medical procedures now commonly in use (e.g., implantable defibrillator insertion). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Defibrillator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Defibrillator" is used about 21 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% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "defibrillator": cardioverter-defibrillator. | |
| 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 "defibrillator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 去纤颤器. (various references) | ||||
Dutch | half-automatische defibrillator (semiautomatic defibrillator). (various references) | ||||
French | défibrillateur semi-automatique (semiautomatic defibrillator). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | efibrillatorday | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defibrillator": defibrillators. (additional references) | |
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"Defibrillator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defibillator, defibrilator, defibrllator, defribillator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defibrillator" (pronounced dēfi"brulā'ter) |
| 5 | -u l ā' t er | accumulator, calculator, escalator, insulator, manipulator, modulator, oscillator, percolator, regulator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, ventilator, violator. |
| 4 | -l ā' t er | legislator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, activator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, liquidator, litigator, locator, mediator, Moderator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, renovator, respirator, syndicator, Terminator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-i-l-l-o-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: fibrillated. | |
-3 letters: fibrillate, tailorbird. | |
-4 letters: airlifted, editorial, fibrillae, fibrillar, filtrable, floriated, irritable, liberator, riflebird, torrified. | |
-5 letters: adroiter, airfield, arillode, arilloid, balloted, balloter, beadroll, biforate, billiard, brailled, deflator, diatribe, draftier, driftier, falderol, fellatio, fellator, fibrilla, filiated, fireball, firebird, fireboat, firebrat, flirtier, floatier, foilable, foldable, foliated, forbidal, fordable, frillier, idolater, laborite, librated, lifeboat, liftable, lordlier, oribatid, railbird, rarified, ratified, ratifier, retailor, tailored, triforia, trilobal, trilobed, trollied. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-i-l-l-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: defibrillators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 66 69 62 72 69 6C 6C 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. .. -... .-. .. .-.. .-.. .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100010 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f i b r i l l a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 0069 0062 0072 0069 006C 006C 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
| 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)38717275688475787867868184 |
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