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noun (oophorectomies)
- (medicine) Removal of one or both ovaries.
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verb (operat, ing)
- To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
- To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- (medicine) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- To produce, as an effect; to cause.
- To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
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noun (plural: operations)
- the method by which a device performs its function. (It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in .)
- the method or practice by which actions are done. (We run our from a storefront.)
- (medicine) a surgical procedure. (She had an to remove her appendix.)
- (mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operands is unique)
- (military) a military campaign (w:Operation Desert Storm)
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| orchidectomy |
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noun (orchidectomies)
- (context, surgery) The procedure to remove one or both testes.
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| orchiectomy |
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noun (orchiectomies)
- (context, surgery) The procedure to remove one or both testes.
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| osteoclasis |
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noun (osteoclases)
- (medicine) The surgical fracture of a bone in order to correct a deformity
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| osteoplastic |
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adjective
- (surgery) Of, or relating to osteoplasty.
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| osteoplasty |
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noun (osteoplasties)
- (surgery) surgery, Surgery to repair, modify or graft bone or bony structures.
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| osteotome |
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noun
- a medical tool used for cutting or marking bone, used in dental implantation
- a kind of bone saw used in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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