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Isoflurane

Definition: Isoflurane

Isoflurane

Noun

1. A widely used inhalation anesthetic.

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


Specialty Definitions: Isoflurane

DomainDefinitions

Health

A stable, non-explosive inhalation anesthetic, relatively free from significant side effects. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Isoflurane

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Isoflurane (1-chloro-2,2,2-trifluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether) is a halogenated ether used for inhalation anesthesia. Together with sevoflurane, it replaced the flammable ethers used in the pioneer days of surgery. It is usually administered in conjunction with nitrous oxide and pure oxygen. Because onset of anesthesia is relatively slow (7-10 minutes), and because of its pungency, it is usually used for maintenance of anesthesia that has been induced with another drug.

Though it vaporizes readily, it is a liquid at room temperature. Anesthesia equipment includes a vaporizer that heats it to generate a gas.

physical properties

Molecular weight -- 184.5 Boiling point °C at 760 mm Hg -- 48.5 Specific gravity at 25 °C -- 1.496 Vapour pressure mm Hg: at 20°C -- 238 at 25°C -- 295 at 30°C -- 367 at 35°C -- 450

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Isoflurane."

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Commercial Usage: Isoflurane

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Books

  • Isoflurane (Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine : 182) (reference)

  • Isoflurane : proceedings of a symposium held as part of the VIIIth World Congress of Anaesthesiologists on 26 January 1984 at Manila, Philippines (reference)

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Usage Frequency: Isoflurane

"Isoflurane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Isoflurane" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Isoflurane

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

isoflurane

23

isoflurane msds

2
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Anagrams: Isoflurane

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: fluorines, frauleins, nefarious.

-2 letters: ailerons, aleurons, alienors, failures, farinose, farnesol, flaneurs, fluorine, fluorins, foresail, fraulein, funerals, furanose, neurosal.

-3 letters: aileron, aleuron, alienor, aliners, anisole, arenous, earfuls, elusion, erasion, failure, ferulas, finales, flaneur, florins, fluorin, frenula, funeral, furanes, infares, infuser, insofar, insular, inulase, loafers, loaners, lousier, nailers, nerolis, olefins, ourself, refusal, reloans, renails, safrole.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: fluorinates, nefariously.

 

+3 letters: furazolidones.

 

+4 letters: reformulations, sulfinpyrazone, unprofessional.

 

+5 letters: antiforeclosure, desulfurization, flirtatiousness, subprofessional, sulfinpyrazones, underinflations, unprofessionals.

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Alternative Orthography: Isoflurane


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

49 73 6F 66 6C 75 72 61 6E 65

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)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0073 006F 0066 006C 0075 0072 0061 006E 0065

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

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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