Operation: alternatives and connections

A carrying or taking away; removal.

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A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

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The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.

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The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

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The act of castrating.

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The operation of introducing a catheter.

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The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

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A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

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The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.

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The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

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The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

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The act of differentiating.

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Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

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The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.

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A disemboweling.

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The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Act of exenterating.

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The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from…

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The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (an…

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The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.

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The Caesarean section. See under Caesarean.

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Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.

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The act or process of implantating.

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The act or process of making whole or entire.

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The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated.

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The act of involving or infolding.

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Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.

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The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

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The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.

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See Offense.

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Alt. of Offence

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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A rushing onward.

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A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.

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An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.

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The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

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The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

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The act of reenforcing, or the state of being reenforced.

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See Reenforcement.

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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The act of cutting or paring off.

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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

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Chance; lot; destiny.

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The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Manipulation applied to a hernial tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing it.

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The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

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To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.

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The act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal.

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The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

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The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.

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A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.

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The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

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The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.

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The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.

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Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.

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The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of t…

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