Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, a section of the pubic symphysis.
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- noun The
surgical separation of the pubic bonelateral to thesymphysis , now an outdated surgery.
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Doctors also appear to have practiced pubiotomy, a related operation that severs the bone rather than the joint, and results in a compound fracture of the pelvis.
Indymedia Ireland Marie O Connor 2010
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