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obliterative procedure

obliterative procedure noun: a surgical procedure that closes a biological cavity or passageway.

Noun

obliterative procedure (plural obliterative procedures)

  1. A surgical procedure that closes a biological cavity or passageway.
    • Without attempting to discuss with Binnie the special types of fusiform aneurism in which the reconstruction of an artery is more or less indicated, I will simply state that in the large majority of the reported cases of aneurism of the extremities, and especially of the popliteal and fremoral...1908, Rudolph Matas, “The Statistics of Endoaneurismorrhaphy, or the Radical Cure of Aneurism by Intrasaccular Suture”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 51, number 20, page 1670
    • The ultimate result of a successful obliterative procedure is that of normal appearing external genitalia, but an obliterated vaginal canal.2007, Patrick J. Culligan, Roger P. Goldberg, Urogynecology in Primary Care, page 101

Forms of obliterative procedure

pluralobliterative procedures

Questions about obliterative procedure

What does obliterative procedure mean?
Obliterative procedure means a surgical procedure that closes a biological cavity or passageway.
What part of speech is obliterative procedure?
Obliterative procedure is a noun.
What is the plural of obliterative procedure?
The plural of obliterative procedure is obliterative procedures.

Words near obliterative procedure in the dictionary

  1. obliterative
  2. obliterative assimilation
  3. obliterative bronchiolitis
  4. obliterative coloration
  5. obliterative colouration
  6. obliterative procedure
  7. obliterative subsumption
  8. obliteratively
  9. obliterator
  10. obliterators
  11. obliterature

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