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Definition: Splenectomy |
SplenectomyNoun1. Surgical removal of the spleen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An operation to remove the spleen. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Splenectomy |
| Specialty definitions using "splenectomy": Heinz Bodies. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | IVIG has been used in chronic ITP to postpone the requirement for a splenectomy. (references) | |
Although IVIG administration before scheduled splenectomy is effective, cost/benefit relationships are unclear because of the low incidence of complications during this procedure, even with extremely low platelet counts. (references) | ||
Figure 4. Ehrlichia ewingii primarily infects neutrophils and occasionally eosinophils and produces a disease clinically similar to HME and HGE. Most patients with this form of ehrlichiosis have also had other medical conditions causing immunosuppression (e.g., HIV infection, splenectomy, transplantation, immunosuppressive drugs). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Splenectomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Splenectomy" is used about 5 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "splenectomy": post-splenectomy. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
splenectomy | 65 |
canine splenectomy | 4 |
laparoscopic splenectomy | 3 |
child laparoscopic splenectomy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "splenectomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | изваждане на далака. (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | splenektomi. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | splenectomie, splenectomia, miltextirpatie. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | splénectomie. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Splenektomie, Entfernung der Milz. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σπληνεκτομή. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | splenectomia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | enectomysplay esplenectomia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-m-n-o-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: completes, lycopenes. | |
-3 letters: competes, complete, ecotypes, employes, lycopene, neotypes, polyenes, polytene, potences. | |
-4 letters: cements, cenotes, clement, cleomes, coempts, compels, compete, cotypes, cymenes, ecotype, ectypes, employe, employs, enclose, eponyms, etymons, eyespot, leptons, loments, meltons, metopes, motleys, myceles, neotype, omelets, openest, pectens, pelmets, pencels, pentose, pentyls, peyotes, peyotls, poleyns, polyene, posteen, postmen, poteens, potence, potency. | |
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