Laparoscope

  

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Laparoscope

Definition: Laparoscope

Laparoscope

Noun

1. A slender endoscope inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall in order to examine the abdominal organs or to perform minor surgery.

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

 

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Crosswords: Laparoscope

English words defined with "laparoscope": lap choly, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "laparoscope": Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopiclaparoscopic-assisted colectomy. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Laparoscope

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

New surgical treatments are being developed that further utilize the laparoscope instead of full abdominal surgery. (references)

Or the doctor might look at the liver using a laparoscope, an instrument inserted through the abdomen that relays pictures back to a computer screen. (references)

This involves a shorter recovery time. Laparoscopy treatment is possible, however, only if the surgeon can see pelvic structures clearly through the laparoscope. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Laparoscope

"Laparoscope" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laparoscope" 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

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Laparoscope

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

laparoscope

53
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Laparoscope

Derivations

Words beginning with "laparoscope": laparoscopes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Laparoscope

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-o-p-p-r-s"

-2 letters: coappears.

-3 letters: acerolas, apocarps, apocopes, apparels, caporals, carpools, clappers, coappear, copperas, precools, prolapse, proposal, psoralea, sapropel, scrapple.

-4 letters: acerola, aerosol, apocarp, apocope, apparel, appeals, appears, apposer, apropos, areolas, caporal, cappers, carpale, carpals, carpels, carpool, clapper, claroes, clasper, coalers, coolers, coopers, coppers, coppras, creosol, earlaps, escalop, escolar, lappers, loopers, loppers, opposer, oracles, palaces, papoose, parasol, parcels, paroles, placers, poplars, precool, propels, propose, rappels, reclasp, recoals, reposal, roseola, scalare, scalper, scooper, slapper, solacer.

-5 letters: appals, appeal, appear, appels, apples, appose, arecas, areola, aslope, caesar, calesa, capers, capper, carles, carols, carpal, carpel, ceorls, claros, clears, closer, coalas, coaler, coarse, colors, cooers, cooler, cooper, copals, copers, copper, coppra, copras, corals, corpse, craals, crapes, cresol, earlap, escarp, lacers, lapper, lapser, lascar, locoes, looper, looser, lopers, lopper, operas, oppose, oracle, orlops, pacers, palace, papers, parcel, pareos, parles, parole, parols, parsec, pascal, pearls, peplos, placer, places, polars, polers, poplar, porose, proles, propel, rappel, rascal, recaps, recoal, roscoe, sacral, saloop, salpae, sapper, sarape, scalar, scaler, sclera, scrape, scroop, secpar, sloper, soaper, solace, spacer, splore, sporal.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-o-p-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: laparoscopes.

 

+2 letters: laparoscopies.

 

+5 letters: overapplications, parapsychologies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Laparoscope


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

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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)

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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. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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