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noun
- Short form of Caesarean section.
adjective
- Of or relating to Julius Caesar.
noun
- (medicine) A tube inserted in the body to drain or inject fluid.
- (aviation) A hose or tube that connects directly to an oxygen (O2) bottle/source from the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus.
verb ( castrat, ing)
- (transitive) To remove the testicles of.
noun ( pl. centesises)
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Med., Surg. puncture or perforation
noun Caesarean ( plural: Caesareans)
- (British) Short form of Caesarean section.
adjective Caesarean
- (British) Of or relating to Julius Caesar.
noun
- (medicine) the selective destruction of diseased or malignant tissue by means of chemical substances; used especially in the treatment of the skin
verb ( circumcis, ing)
- To amputate the foreskin from a penis.
- To amputate the clitoris, prepuce, or labia.
noun
- The act of excising or amputating the foreskin or prepuce from the penis.
- The act of excising tissue from the vulva of the female.
noun
- A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
noun ( commissurotomies)
- (medicine) The surgical division of a commissure or similar structure.
noun
- A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
- A devices that squeezes (compresses).
- (audio) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal
noun
- Surgery (and related medical treatment) undergone to improve appearance rather than for health reasons.
- The face lift is a classic example of .
noun
- (medicine) The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue
noun
- (medicine) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette
noun
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface
noun
- (medicine) surgical removal of the ciliary muscle; cyclicotomy
- (mathematics) the historical problems of dividing the circle into a given number of equal segments, and of constructing regular polygons
- (mathematics) the analytical extraction of the complex roots of unity; a de Moivre number
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