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Definition: Reconstructive |
ReconstructiveAdjective1. Helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reconstructive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Synonym: ReconstructiveSynonym: rehabilitative (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Reconstructive |
| English words defined with "reconstructive": phalloplasty. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reconstructive": Reconstructive Surgical Procedures ♦ Tissue Expansion. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Reconstructive or microvascular surgery may be needed. (references) | |
Plastic reconstructive surgery may be beneficial in some individuals. (references) | ||
This excision often can be performed with a primary closure of the surgical defect without the need for reconstructive procedures. (references) | ||
Children | Sierra Leone | Such programs involve reconstructive surgery, prostheses, and vocational training to help them acquire new work skills. (references) |
Economic History | Bahrain | Specialist clinics have been designed for obstetrics and gynecology, infertility, obesity, internal medicine, gastroenterology and diabetology, physical medicine and sports medicine, plastic and reconstructive surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology, ear-nose-throat and psychiatry. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reconstructive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reconstructive" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reconstructive": Reconstructive Surgical Procedures. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "reconstructive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rindërtues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възстановителен (recuperative, restoration, restorative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重建 (rebuilding, rebuilt, reconstruct, reconstructed, Reconstruction, reestablish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mandibelplastik (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mandibuloplastiek (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mandibuloplastia (mandibular reconstructive surgery), alaleukaluun korjausleikkaus (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mandibuloplastie (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wiederaufbaünd (reconstructing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανασκευαστικόσ, ανορθωτικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | osteosintesi della mandibola (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econstructiveray восстановительный. (various references) mandibuloplastia (mandibular reconstructive surgery). (various references) återuppbyggande (reconstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Reconstructive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reconstructivist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reconstructive" (pronounced rē'kunstru"ktiv) |
| 11 | -k u n s t r u" k t i v | constructive. |
| 9 | -n s t r u" k t i v | instructive. |
| 8 | -s t r u" k t i v | destructive, obstructive. |
| 5 | -u" k t i v | conductive, nonproductive, photoconductive, productive, reproductive, seductive, superconductive, unproductive. |
| 4 | -k t i v | active, addictive, adjective, affective, attractive, collective, connective, corrective, counterproductive, defective, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, hyperactive, inactive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, interactive, introspective, invective, irrespective, objective, octave, overactive, perspective, predictive, proactive, projective, prospective, protective, radioactive, reactive, reflective, refractive, respective, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, selective, subjective, unattractive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: constructive, countercries. | |
-3 letters: consecutive, correctives, enterovirus, intercourse, reconstruct. | |
-4 letters: conceivers, concretist, contrivers, converters, cornetcies, correctest, corrective, covertures, currencies, instructor, introverts, occurrents, overinsure, reconverts, reconvicts, recounters, scrutineer, uncoercive, ventricose. | |
-5 letters: ceintures, centuries, cicerones, cinctures, cinereous, coinsurer, conceiver, conceives, concretes, conserver, constrict, construct, contester, contriver, contrives, converser, converter, cornetist, corvettes, cotrustee, countries, courtiers, coverture, cretinous, croceines, enuretics, erections, eutectics, evections, incorrect, intercuts, intersect, introvert, inverters, invertors, neoterics, neurotics, occurrent, orneriest, overcures, overtires, overtures, overturns, reconvert, reconvict, recounter, rectories, rectrices, recursion, recursive, reorients, resection, restriven, reuniters, reversion, scrivener, secretion, stricture, tectonics, tectrices, tenorites, tinctures, toreutics, trecentos, tricornes, trisector, trouncers, trouveres, turneries, turnovers, venturers, verrucose, virescent. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6F 6E 73 74 72 75 63 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. --- -. ... - .-. ..- -.-. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c o n s t r u c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006F 006E 0073 0074 0072 0075 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271698180858684876986758871 |
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