Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical incision into the abdominal wall, especially into the flank.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, incision into the abdominal cavity; abdominal section.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical procedure for making an
incision in theabdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominaloperation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical incision into the abdominal wall; often done to examine abdominal organs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To Stone's way of thinking, McCray should have performed an operation called a laparotomy to locate and drain this abscess during Karsten's second hospitalization.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Open tubal ligation, also known as a laparotomy, is performed through
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But since this approach requires a laparotomy, which is associated with longer hospitalization and increased blood loss, the postoperative road to recovery is often slow and painful as compared with less invasive approaches.
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Laparoscopy versus open laparotomy for bowel resection in pediatric Crohn's disease
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There are three medical clinics in Hallum Valley and one hospital capable of minor orthopedics, low-risk deliveries, appendectomies and a rare exploratory laparotomy if the weather is too bad to get to a city.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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For example, an exploratory laparotomy for bowel obstruction has departed from the script if we find a huge diaphragmatic hernia.
Surgical cases that suck Dafydd 2009
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For example, an exploratory laparotomy for bowel obstruction has departed from the script if we find a huge diaphragmatic hernia.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dafydd 2009
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"If you don't like the laparotomy," Don told him at one point, referring to a line in the story, "you may choose some other operation ending in 'omy.'"
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After a laparotomy, I conceived and carried 5 beautiful children to term.
Get in on Life... 2007
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We should be comparing the cost of a scan to that of a laparotomy.
Health Care Waste, Continued, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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