orad
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The sutures of four septa are exposed; the most orad of these can be traced with a fair degree of accuracy throughout almost its entire course."
- "The frequency of segmenting contractions is higher in the descending and sigmoid colon than in more orad areas."
- "The endoscope is advanced to its most orad (toward the mouth) limit and then slowly withdrawn so that the mucosa can be thoroughly examined."
- "The most common symptom of GERD is heartburn, which is described as substernal burning that moves orad from the xiphoid."
- "Beginning 8 to 10 sec prior to egestion, the pellet is moved orad by esophageal antiperistalsis."
- "This is due to the UES moving completely off the sensor as it moves orad with the swallow."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more orad (comparative)
most orad (superlative)