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Definition: Episiotomy |
EpisiotomyNoun1. Surgical incision of the perineum to enlarge the vagina and so facilitate delivery during childbirth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | An incision of the posterior vaginal wall and a portion of the pudenda which enlarges the vaginal introitus to facilitate delivery and prevent lacerations. (references) |
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Health | The risk of injury is greatest if the doctor uses forceps to help deliver the baby or does an episiotomy, which is a cut in the vaginal area to prevent it from tearing during birth. (references) | |
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| "Episiotomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Episiotomy" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
episiotomy | 118 |
episiotomy picture | 8 |
care episiotomy | 6 |
episiotomy photo | 6 |
episiotomy complication | 4 |
episiotomy healing | 4 |
episiotomy pressure | 4 |
episiotomy repair | 3 |
abscess episiotomy | 3 |
episiotomy infection | 2 |
avoid episiotomy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "episiotomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | episiotomi (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | episiotomie, perineotomie (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | périnéotomie, épisiotomie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Episiotomie (perineotomy), dammschnitt (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | περινεοτομή (perineotomy), περινεοτομία (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | episiotomia (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 외음 개. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | episiotomyay episiotomia, perineotomia (perineotomy). (various references) episiotomía (perineotomy), perineotomía (perineotomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-o-o-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: optimise. | |
-3 letters: impiety, isotope, isotopy, isotype, mistype, mopiest, myopies, myosote, optimes, pietism, piosity. | |
-4 letters: impose, impost, moiety, myopes, optime, ostomy, otiose, pities, potsie, somite, sopite, stymie, tempos, tepoys. | |
-5 letters: emits, empty, estop, impis, items, metis, misty, mites, mitis, moist, moose, moots, mopes, mopey, mosey, moste, motes, motey, myope, omits, pesto, pesty, piety, piste, poems. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-o-o-p-s-t-y" | |
+3 letters: poliomyelitis. | |
+4 letters: polymerisation. | |
+5 letters: decomposability, monospecificity, poliomyelitides, polymerisations, polymerizations, psychotomimetic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 70 69 73 69 6F 74 6F 6D 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .. ... .. --- - --- -- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p i s i o t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 0069 0073 0069 006F 0074 006F 006D 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)39827585758186817991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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