Sigmoid

//ˈsɪɡ.mɔɪd//

Synonyms for "sigmoid" (67 found)

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Translations

7 translations across 4 languages.

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Catalan

2 entries
  • sigmoide adj (S-shaped, sigma-shaped)
  • sigmoïdal adj (relating to the sigmoid colon)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 乙狀 /乙状 adj (S-shaped, sigma-shaped)
  • 乙狀結腸的 /乙状结肠的 adj (relating to the sigmoid colon)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • sigmoid adj (S-shaped, sigma-shaped)

Spanish

2 entries
  • sigmoideo adj (S-shaped, sigma-shaped)
  • sigmoideo adj (relating to the sigmoid colon)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

After his colonoscopy, Tom learned that he had cancer. The surgeon cut out and removed the part of his sigmoid colon in which a tumour had been growing, and with staples she fashioned a new splice from the two shorter and cut-through ends. Because of his good health, he healed quickly and after only three days was discharged from the hospital.

Source: tatoeba (5248987)

Systemic and local hygiene has supplanted drugs and surgery in the treatment of diseases of the anus, rectum, sigmoid flexure, and vermiform appendix.

Source: tatoeba (11034139)

If we had the textbook from a hundred years in the future that contains all the simple ideas that actually work, that take so long to identify in practice — the ReLUs instead of sigmoids — for those of us who’ve been following AI for, like, more than the last couple of years and know what I’m taking about there.

Source: wiktionary

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