Surgery: alternatives and connections

A carrying or taking away; removal.

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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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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 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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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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The act or process of implantating.

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

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The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

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The act of cutting or paring off.

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

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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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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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Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.

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Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.

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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 or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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A particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, -- that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both. It corr…

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