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Definition: Electrocautery |
ElectrocauteryNoun1. 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). |
Crosswords: Electrocautery |
| English words defined with "electrocautery": electrosurgery. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
electrocautery | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 63 74 72 6F 63 61 75 74 65 72 79 |
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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)E l e c t r o c a u t e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0072 006F 0063 0061 0075 0074 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3978716986848169678786718491 |
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