(surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid
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happening or done after a surgical operation; "postoperative complications"; "postoperative care"
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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…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Surgery.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)
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Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.an operation that controls the recording or processing or transmission of interpretation of data; "a control operation started the dat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.an operation that controls the recording or processing or transmission of interpretation of data; "a control operation started the dat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.of Cup
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Dead.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.A doing, making, or preparing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.The act or process of cutting out a portion of the iris in order to form an artificial pupil.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: happening, done, surgical, operation, complications.Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigi…
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