388. Surgery

See also 266. MEDICAL SPECIALTIES .

ablation

Medicine. removal of part of the body by surgery.

apocope

excision or amputation.

cauterism

Obsolete, cautery.

cautery

the act of cauterization, or burning away of dead tissue.

centesis

a surgical perforation or puncture.

chirurgery

Archaic. surgery.

comminution

the breaking of a bone into small pieces. See also 52. BONES .

craniotome

a surgical instrument for opening a hole in the skull.

cryosurgery

a surgical technique using freezing to destroy tissue.

dermatoplasty

any form of plastic surgery of the skin, as skin grafts.

elytroplasty

surgery of the vagina.

neoplasty

repair or restoration of part of the body by plastic surgery.

osteoplasty

the surgical practice of bone-grafting.

osteotome

a serrated instrument for bone surgery.

osteotomy

1. the dissection or anatomy of bones.

2. the cutting of bones as part of a surgical operation. —osteotomist, n.

prosthetics

the branch of surgery dealing with the replacement of missing limbs or organs with artificial substitutes. — prosthetic, adj.

tomomania

an obsession with surgery.

traumatonesis

the process of suture.

vasectomy

surgical excision of part of the vas deferens, the duct which carries sperm from the testes, performed as a form of male contraception.

zooplasty

the process of surgically grafting tissue from a lower animal onto the human body. — zooplastic, adj.