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Rectocele

Definition: Rectocele

Rectocele

Noun

1. Protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth.

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

"Rectocele" is a common misspelling or typo for: reconcile, reconciled, reticule, retrocede.



Synonym: Rectocele

Synonym: proctocele (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rectocele

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Health

Examples of some abnormalities are decreased perception of rectal sensation, decreased anal canal pressures, decreased squeeze pressure of the anal canal, impaired anal sensation, a dropping down of the rectum (rectal prolapse), protrusion of the rectum through the vagina (rectocele), and/or generalized weakness and sagging of the pelvic floor. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rectocele

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

rectocele

182

rectocele repair

19

rectocele surgery

17

prolapse rectocele

6

cystocele rectocele

6

rectocele symptom

4

picture rectocele

3

information rectocele

3

photo rectocele

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Rectocele

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-l-o-r-t"

-2 letters: coerect, elector, electro, reelect.

-3 letters: coerce, colter, creole, lector, tercel.

-4 letters: ceorl, creel, elect, erect, recce, recto, relet, terce.

-5 letters: celt, cere, cero, cete, clot, cole, colt, core, cote, croc, leer, leet, lore, orle, reel, rete, role, rote, rotl, teel, tele, tole, torc, tore, tree.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-l-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: electrocute, heterocycle, recollected.

 

+3 letters: concelebrate, electrocuted, electrocutes, electrogenic, electroscope, enterocoelic, heterocercal, heterocycles.

 

+4 letters: accelerometer, concelebrated, concelebrates, electroscopes, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, reconcilement, selenocentric.

 

+5 letters: accelerometers, electrokinetic, ferroelectrics, microelectrode, reconcilements, stereochemical, teleconference, thermoelectric.

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Alternative Orthography: Rectocele


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

52 65 63 74 6F 63 65 6C 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)

01010010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01100011 01100101 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#111 &#99 &#101 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0063 0074 006F 0063 0065 006C 0065

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

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

527169868169717871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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