A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become o…
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(surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid
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The act of binding, or the state of being bound.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.A sample of tissue taken from the body for diagnostic examination.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.of Bleed
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or du…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.laparotomy performed with a laparoscope that makes a small incision to examine the abdominal cavity (especially the ovaries and Fallop…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
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The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.A dagger.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.Hollowness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.A cavity formed by the invagination of the outer wall of the body, as the atrium of an amphioxus and possibly the body cavity of verte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the ear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: surgery, puncturing, body, cavity, organ.
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