Word Meanings - ENTEROTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.

Related words: (words related to ENTEROTOMY)

• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• REDUCT
  To reduce. W. Warde.
• REDUCING
  a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• REDUCER
  One who, or that which, reduces.
• INCISION
  1. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance. Milton. 2. That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash. 3. Separation or solution of viscid matter
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• REDUCTION
  The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. The preparation of the facts and measurements
• HERNIAL
  Of, or connected with, hernia.
• REDUCIBLENESS
  Quality of being reducible.
• CERTAINLY
  Without doubt or question; unquestionably.
• HERNIA
  A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia
• REDUCENT
  Tending to reduce. -- n.
• REDUCTIBILITY
  The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
• REDUCIBLE
  Capable of being reduced.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• INCERTAIN
  Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.
• ASCERTAINER
  One who ascertains.