(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 operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
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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.
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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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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: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.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: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.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: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.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: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.Alt. of Electro-puncturing
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.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: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: operation, puncturing, chest, wall, liquids.An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one…
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