counter-opening

[Symbol: ounce] iv of foul fæcal fluid were evacuated from loin, and a free counter-opening made.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

If to any extent it is found then to have 'pocketed' beneath the upper border of the wall, a counter-opening should be made where the horn of the wall has been thinned with the rasp.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

Where a counter-opening is thus made it is found that it very readily closes with granulation tissue, and the purpose for which it was made defeated.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

-- Although Villate's solution or any other caustic used in the manner we have described often effects a cure, many practitioners insist on the fact that a counter-opening to the fistula must also be made.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

When it is necessary to open the joint, the incision should be placed anteriorly in the line of the inter-tubercular groove; if a counter-opening is required it is made on the posterior aspect by cutting on the point of a dressing forceps introduced through the anterior incision.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

He generally made a counter-opening behind to get rid of discharges, and inserted a drainage-tube.

A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874

An interesting modification of the practice of making a counter-opening is that related by Veterinary-Captain S.M. Smith. [

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

A] In point of severity it runs a middle course between the making of a simple counter-opening and the removal of a wedge-shaped portion of the coronary band and the wall, a method which we shall later describe.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks