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Iridotomy

Definition: Iridotomy

Iridotomy

Noun

1. A surgical procedure that makes an incision in the iris of the eye in order to enlarge the pupil or to treat glaucoma.

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

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Iridotomy

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
iridotomy	7
laser iridotomy	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Iridotomy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-i-m-o-o-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: dimity, toroid.
	-4 letters: dirty, doomy, dormy, dorty, droit, idiom, idiot, imido, moody, moory, motor, myoid, ootid, roomy, rooty, timid, torii.
	-5 letters: dirt, doit, doom, door, dorm, dory, doty, imid, irid, midi, miri, miry, mity, modi, mood, moor, moot, mort, odor, omit, ordo, rimy, riot, rood, room, root, roti, roto, ryot, tidy, tiro, tody.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-i-m-o-o-r-t-y"
	+3 letters: admonitorily.
	+4 letters: disconformity.
	+5 letters: clitoridectomy, hypothyroidism.
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Alternative Orthography: Iridotomy

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

49 72 69 64 6F 74 6F 6D 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)

01001001 01110010 01101001 01100100 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#114 &#105 &#100 &#111 &#116 &#111 &#109 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0072 0069 0064 006F 0074 006F 006D 0079

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

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

438475708186817991

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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