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Evoked

Definition: Evoked

Evoked

Adjective

1. Called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response".

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

Date "evoked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Evoked

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
EVEnglishEvoked ResponsePhysics

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

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Synonym: Evoked

Synonym: elicited (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Evoked

English words defined with "evoked": evoked potentiallectinreaction, reciprocal inhibition, reciprocal-inhibition therapy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "evoked": Audiometry, Evoked Responseeeg technologis, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIST, Esophageal Spasm, Diffuse, Evoked Potentials, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem, Evoked Potentials, Motor, Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory, Evoked Potentials, Visual, evoked response audiometryMagnetoencephalography, moral sanctionsomatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential testvisual evoked potential test. (references)
Etymologies containing "evoked": Evoke. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Evoked

DomainTitle

Books

  • Auditory Evoked Responses in Clinical Practice (reference)

  • Clinical Neurophysiology: Emg, Nerve Conduction and Evoked Potentials (reference)

  • Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior: Proceedings of a Conference on Evoked Brain Potentials and Behavior, Held at the Downstate Medical Center, stat (reference)

  • Evoked Potential Audiometry: Fundamentals and Applications (reference)

  • Handbook of Auditory Evoked Responses (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Use in Literature: Evoked

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

He looked like a ghost, evoked unseasonably from the grave.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Evoked

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Hanigan, W, and Aldrich, W. MRI and Evoked Potentials in a Child With Hydranencephaly. (references)

Electrodiagnostic procedures include electromyography (EMG), nerve conduction studies, and evoked potential (EP) studies. (references)

Evoked otoacoustic emissions represent a newer type of newborn screening method that offers potential additional benefits. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Evoked

"Evoked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 46.22% of the time. "Evoked" is used about 251 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)46.22%11629,969
Lexical Verb (past tense)43.82%11030,952
Adjective (general or positive)9.96%2569,787
                    Total100.00%251N/A

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

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Expressions: Evoked

Expressions using "evoked": be evoked elicited evoked evoked potential Evoked Potentials evoked response audiometry somatosensory evoked potential evaluation somatosensory evoked potential test visual evoked potential test. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "evoked": cortical-evoked, cs-evoked, glutamate-evoked, re-evoked, uptake-evoked.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Evoked

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

  evoked potential

30

  evoked potential visual

13

  evoked potential somatosensory

7

  evoked response visual

6

  evoked potential test

6

  evoked potential auditory

4

  auditory brainstem evoked response

4

  evoked potential system

3

  evoked potential motor

3

  evoked response

2

  evoked

2

  evoked potential test visual

2

  evoked p100 potential visual

2

  evoked response test visual

2
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Modern Translations: Evoked

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

Chinese 

  

召" (Beckon, Beckoned, Beckoning, Conjure, Conjured, Conjuring, Evoke, Evoking, summon, Summoned, summoning, summons, Summonses). (various references)

   

Danish

  

evoked response audiometry (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), evoked potential (evoked potential), ERA-audiometri (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), ERA (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), elektromyograf (electromyograph, evoked potential instrument), elektroencefalografisk audiometri (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), electric response audiometry (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), EEG-computer-audiometri (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), EEG-audiometri (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), Vertex audiometri (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), registrering af synlige evokerede potentialer (VEP test, visual evoked potential test), registrering af somatosensoriske evokerede potentialer (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

evoked response-audiometrie (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), ERA-audiometrie (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), ERA (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), elektromyograaf (electromyograph, evoked potential instrument), meting van de visueel geëvokeerde potentialen (VEP test, visual evoked potential test), meting van de sensorische evoked potentials (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

SSEP (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation), somatosensoristen herätevasteiden rekisteröinti (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation), näkökuoren herätepotentiaalien rekisteröinti (VEP test, visual evoked potential test), herätepotentiaalimittari (evoked potential instrument). (various references)

   

French

  

évoquai, évoquées, évoqué, évoquâmes, évoqua. (various references)

   

German

  

hervorgerufen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προκλητό δυναμικό (evoked potential). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ERA (age, cortical audiometry, Eon, era, evoked response audiometry, he had, he was, it was), rivelature di potenziale (evoked potential), rivelatore di potenziale (evoked potential instrument), registrazione dei potenziali evocati visivi (VEP test, visual evoked potential test), registrazione dei potenziali evocati somestesici (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation), audiometria elettroencefalografica (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), audiometria a risposte evocate (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evokeday

   

Portuguese

  

potencial de excitação (evoked potential). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вызывать (bring, bring about, bring forth, call, call in, challenge, cite, conjure, engender, entail, evoke, exert, give rise to, induce, involve, produce, provoke, ring for, summon, whistle up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ERA (age, cortical audiometry, Eon, era, evoked response audiometry, it was, threshing floor), equipo para registrar los potenciales evocados (evoked potential instrument), registro de los potenciales evocados visuales (VEP test, visual evoked potential test), registro de los potenciales evocados somestésicos (SEP test, somatosensory evoked potential evaluation, somatosensory evoked potential test, SSEP evaluation), potencial evocado (evoked potential), audiometría por potenciales evocados (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry), audiometría electroencefalográfica (cortical audiometry, evoked response audiometry). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Evoked

Derivations

Words ending with "evoked": reevoked, revoked. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Evoked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avokea, envoke, envoked, eviced, evkaf, evoc, Evoe, evok, evoled, ev'one, evoqe, evoved, evowed, evuke. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Evoked"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "evoked" (pronounced ivō"kt or ēvō"kt)
5i v ō" k trevoked.
4-v ō" k tinvoked, provoked, unprovoked.
3-ō" k tchoked, cloaked, joked, poked, smoked, soaked, stoked, stroked, yoked.
4-v ō" k tinvoked, provoked, revoked, unprovoked.
3-ō" k tchoked, cloaked, joked, poked, smoked, soaked, stoked, stroked, yoked.

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Anagrams: Evoked

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-k-o-v"

-1 letter: evoke.

-2 letters: deke, dove, eked.

-3 letters: dee, dev, doe, eke, eve, ode, oke, vee, voe.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, od, oe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-k-o-v"
 

+1 letter: dovekey, dovekie, revoked.

 

+2 letters: dovekeys, dovekies, dovelike, overdeck, reevoked.

 

+3 letters: overbaked, overdecks, reinvoked.

 

+4 letters: overbooked, overcooked, overdecked, overkilled, overlooked, overmilked, oversmoked, oversoaked, overtalked, overtasked, overworked.

 

+5 letters: overdecking, overstocked, volkslieder.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Evoked


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

45 76 6F 6B 65 64

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 01110110 01101111 01101011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#111 &#107 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 006F 006B 0065 0064

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

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

398881777170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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