Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cutting operation for the removal of a sequestrum.
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- noun medicine, obsolete
Surgical removal of asequestrum , or piece of dead bone that has become separated due tonecrosis .
Etymologies
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sequestrum + -otomy
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In the operation of sequestrotomy, the surgeon must exercise great judgment.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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