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Electromyography

Definition: Electromyography

Electromyography

Noun

1. Diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders with the use of an electromyograph.

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



Specialty Definitions: Electromyography

DomainDefinitions

Health

Recording of the changes in electric potential of muscle by means of surface or needle electrodes. (references)

Medicine

Recording of electrical activity or currents in a muscle. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym by domain: emg (medicine).

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Commercial Usage: Electromyography

DomainTitle

Books

  • Anatomic Localization for Needle Electromyography (reference)

  • Electromyography (reference)

  • Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders: Clinical-Electrophysiologic Correlations (reference)

  • Electromyography for Experimentalists (reference)

  • Electromyography in Clinical Practice: Clinical and Electrodiagnostic Aspects of Neuromuscular Disease (reference)

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Periodicals

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Non-Fiction Usage: Electromyography

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Routine electromyography is not required in every patient. (references)

One of these is called electromyography (EMG), which measures muscle weakness. (references)

Injections in these areas are given without electromyography control in most cases. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Electromyography

"Electromyography" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Electromyography" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Electromyography

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

electromyography

93

electromyography surface

10

electromyography needle

3

electromyography h.c.hop

2
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Modern Translations: Electromyography

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

Danish

  

elektromyografi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

electromyografie. (various references)

   

French

  

électromyographie. (various references)

   

German

  

Elektromyiographie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηλεκτρομυογραφία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

elettromiografia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electromyographyay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

electromiografia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Electromyography

Misspellings

"Electromyography" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: electromyograph. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Electromyography

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-l-m-o-o-p-r-r-t-y-y"

-1 letter: electromyograph.

-4 letters: cephalometry.

-5 letters: corporately, cryotherapy, electrogram, gametophore, herpetology, martyrology, perchlorate.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-l-m-o-o-p-r-r-t-y-y"
 

+5 letters: electromyographically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Electromyography


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

45 6C 65 63 74 72 6F 6D 79 6F 67 72 61 70 68 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 01101101 01111001 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0072 006F 006D 0079 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 0079

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

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

39787169868481799181738467827491

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INDEX

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


  

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