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Definition: Echocardiography |
EchocardiographyNoun1. Diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Ultrasonic recording of the size, motion, and composition of the heart and surrounding tissues. The standard approach is transthoracic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Echocardiography |
| Specialty definitions using "echocardiography": Echocardiography, Doppler, Echocardiography, Doppler, Color, Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed, Echocardiography, Transesophageal ♦ transesophageal echocardiography ♦ Ventricular Pressure. (references) |
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Health | These include echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and computed tomography. (references) | |
Echocardiography also can be used to calculate a patient's ejection fraction, a measure of the amount of blood pumped out when the heart contracts. (references) | ||
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| "Echocardiography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Echocardiography" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "echocardiography": transesophageal echocardiography. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
echocardiography | 150 |
american society echocardiography | 52 |
transesophageal echocardiography | 17 |
echocardiography school | 15 |
echocardiography job | 9 |
echocardiography technician | 5 |
stress echocardiography | 5 |
echocardiography course | 4 |
contrast echocardiography | 4 |
basic echocardiography | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "echocardiography"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | transøsofageal ekkokardiografi (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), Dopplerundersøgelse af halsens blodkar (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels). (various references) | |
Dutch | transoesofagale endocardiografie (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), Doppler-duplex echografie van de halsvaten (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels). (various references) | |
Finnish | transesofageaalinen kaikukardiografia (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), kaulan verisuonten dopplerkaikukukuvaus (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels). (various references) | |
French | doppler-échotomographie des vaisseaux du cou (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels), échographie cardiaque transoesophagienne (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography). (various references) | |
German | transösophageale Echokardiographie (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), Doppler-Echotomographie zur Untersuchung der Halsgefäße (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels). (various references) | |
Greek | ηχοτομογραφία doppler αυχενικών αγγείων (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels), διοισοφαγικό υπερηχοκαρδιογράφημα (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography). (various references) | |
Italian | ecocardiografia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | echocardiographyay.(various references) | |
Spanish | ecotomografía de los vasos del cuello (Doppler echocardiography of the neck vessels), ecografía transesofágica (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), ecocardiograma transesofágico (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography), ecocardiografía transesofágica (transesophageal echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-g-h-h-i-o-o-p-r-r-y" | |
-3 letters: choreographic. | |
-4 letters: cardiography, choreography, chorographic, hydrographic. | |
-5 letters: cardiograph, chirography, choreograph, chorography, radiography. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 63 68 6F 63 61 72 64 69 6F 67 72 61 70 68 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100011 01101000 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E c h o c a r d i o g r a p h y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0063 0068 006F 0063 0061 0072 0064 0069 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0079 |
| 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)39697481696784707581738467827491 |
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