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Electrocautery

Definition: Electrocautery

Electrocautery

Noun

1. Application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Electrocautery" is a common misspelling or typo for: electrocute.

Synonym by domain: equipment for electrocautery (medicine).

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Crosswords: Electrocautery

English words defined with "electrocautery": electrosurgery. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Electrocautery

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Management modalities for HSIL are established and include colposcopy-directed biopsy and endocervical curettage followed by conization with scalpel, cautery, laser, or loop electrocautery excision procedure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Electrocautery

"Electrocautery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Electrocautery" is used about 2 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Electrocautery

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

electrocautery

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Electrocautery

Language Translations for "electrocautery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

electrocauteryay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

electrocauter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Electrocautery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-l-o-r-r-t-t-u-y"

-3 letters: electrocute.

-4 letters: creaturely, electorate.

-5 letters: clatterer, correctly, correlate, craterlet, electuary, eucaryote, rectorate, relocatee, reluctate, urceolate.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Electrocautery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 6C 65 63 74 72 6F 63 61 75 74 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#108 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#99 &#97 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0072 006F 0063 0061 0075 0074 0065 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3978716986848169678786718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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