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Gastroscopy

Definition: Gastroscopy

Gastroscopy

Noun

1. Visual examination of the stomach by means of a gastroscope inserted through the esophagus.

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



Specialty Definitions: Gastroscopy

DomainDefinitions

Health

Endoscopic examination, therapy, or surgery of the interior of the stomach. (references)

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Crosswords: Gastroscopy

English words defined with "gastroscopy": Gastroscopic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gastroscopy

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gastrointestinal pan-endoscopy; esophagoscopy, gastroscopy, bulbar and postbulbar duodenoscopy, procto-sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, and peritoneoscopy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Gastroscopy

"Gastroscopy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gastroscopy" is used about 61 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%6143,149

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gastroscopy

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

gastroscopy

65
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Modern Translations: Gastroscopy

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

Danish

  

gastroskopi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gastroscopie. (various references)

   

French

  

gastroscopie. (various references)

   

German

  

Gastroskopie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γαστροσκόπηση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

gastroscopia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astroscopygay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gastroscopia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gastroskopi. (various references)

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Rhyming with "Gastroscopy"

Words rhyming with "gastroscopy" (pronounced 'Gas*tros"co*py'): Abdominoscopy, AEolotropy, Aeroscopy, Anthroposcopy, Antitypy, Apanthropy, Aphilanthropy, Astroscopy, Auriscopy, Autotypy, balneotherapy, Bumblepuppy, Cerebroscopy, Chappy, Chirrupy, Choppy, Concupy, Courtepy, Cranioscopy, Cuppy, Cynanthropy, Daguerreotypy, Deuteroscopy, Ectopy, Electro-bioscopy, Electrotypy, Emmetropy, Endoscopy, Episcopy, Floppy, fluoroscopy, Fool-happy, Galvanoscopy, Geloscopy, Geoscopy, Happy, harpy, Heliotypy, Hemitropy, Hepatoscopy, Hieroscopy, Homotypy, horoscopy, hydrotherapy, Ichnoscopy, isotropy, Knappy, Laryngoscopy, Lithotypy, Loppy, lycanthropy, Magnetotherapy, Manoscopy, Metallotherapy, Metoposcopy, microscopy, misanthropy, Mishappy, Myopy, Nauscopy, Nyctalopy, Oneiroscopy, Onomatopy, Ophthalmoscopy, Organoscopy, Ornithoscopy, orthoepy, Otoscopy, Ouroscopy, Overcanopy, Overhappy, Pappy, Paspy, Philanthropy, Phonotypy, Phototherapy, Phototypy, Physianthropy, Pneumotherapy, Polariscopy, Preoccupy, Presbyopy, Psilanthropy, Psychotherapy, Radioscopy, Radiotherapy, Reoccupy, Retinoscopy, rhinoscopy, scrappy, Serotherapy, Serum-therapy, Shoppy, slippy, sloppy, snappy, soppy, Spattling-poppy, stereoscopy, Stereotypy, Stethoscopy, Synepy, Telescopy, Theanthropy, Theophilanthropy, therapy, thermotherapy, Thermotypy, Tittuppy, Tracheoscopy, Trappy, unhappy, Uranoscopy, Urethroscopy, Uroscopy, Zoanthropy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Gastroscopy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-y"

-2 letters: copastors, sporocyst.

-3 letters: copastor, gosports, topcross.

-4 letters: captors, castors, costars, cryptos, gosport, oocysts, pastors, ragtops, scroops.

-5 letters: across, actors, agorot, argosy, argots, ascots, assort, captor, cargos, cartop, castor, coapts, coasts, coopts, copras, costar, crypto, crypts, gators, grasps, grassy, groats, oocyst, pargos, pastor, pastry, payors, prosos, ragtop, roasts, roosts, sapors, satyrs, scarps, scarts, scoops, scoots, scrags, scraps, scroop, scrota, sopors, sorgos, spoors, sports, sporty, sprags, sprats, sprays, stoops, straps, strays, strops, stroys, tarocs, torsos, troops.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-y"
 

+4 letters: crossopterygian.

 

+5 letters: crossopterygians, parapsychologist.

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Alternative Orthography: Gastroscopy


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

47 61 73 74 72 6F 73 63 6F 70 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)

01000111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110000 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#112 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0073 0074 0072 006F 0073 0063 006F 0070 0079

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

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

4167858684818569818291

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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