Definitions
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- noun surgery A corrective surgical procedure to straighten a
deviated nasal septum . - noun surgery A surgical procedure to harvest
cartilage from the nasal septum to be used as grafting material.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yup, Pat, that was a fine septoplasty horror story.
Ox tail stew for the muse Douglas Hoffman 2005
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I suppose it doesn't help that your favorite basketball team lay down and died at Wake Forest; that the president of your country is an intransigent, monkey-faced, bible-thumping nimrod, and that you have septoplasty surgery to look forward to in the coming weeks.
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I suppose it doesn't help that your favorite basketball team lay down and died at Wake Forest; that the president of your country is an intransigent, monkey-faced, bible-thumping nimrod, and that you have septoplasty surgery to look forward to in the coming weeks.
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I have to get surgery - septoplasty - but they put you out on anesthetics and it takes a week to recover, the question remains; which week would I like to ruin.
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I have to get surgery - septoplasty - but they put you out on anesthetics and it takes a week to recover, the question remains; which week would I like to ruin.
All Hallow E'en 2003
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I went under the knife on Wednesday and had functional endoscopic sinus surgery and a septoplasty.
Against Heresies 2010
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"The use of polydioxanone plate during septal surgery facilitates external septoplasty, corrects several combined nasal deformities such as post-traumatic and iatrogenic [medically induced] irregularities and avoids postoperative saddle nose deformity, without risk to the patient."
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Conventional septoplasty, or surgery to straighten a deviated septum, is not always possible because the surgical manipulations involved weaken the septal cartilage, according to background information in the article.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Last week I had a minor but necessary operation (septoplasty and bilateral turbinate reduction) to help me breath better.
Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall 2010
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Last week I had a minor but necessary operation (septoplasty and bilateral turbinate reduction) to help me breath better.
Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall 2010
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