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- noun Plural form of
seton .
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Examples
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And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well,into the wounds with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.
Of Oil and Earthworms Julianne Douglas 2008
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And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well,into the wounds with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.
Archive 2008-06-01 Julianne Douglas 2008
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And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well, into the wounds, with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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In the failure of medical treatment, Gilbert directs the employment of surgical means, e.g., the use of setons, or, in suitable cases, extirpation of the goiter with the knife.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Put setons, or rowels in the dewlap, so as to have a dependent opening.
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At twenty-seven, Wilson was lecturing ten, eleven, or more hours weekly, usually with setons or open blister-wounds upon him -- his
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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The employment of setons constitutes a dependable method of treatment of shoulder atrophy, but because of the attendant suppurative process which inevitably results, this method is not popular with modern surgeons and is a last resort procedure.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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This effect has been ascribed to a derivative action, independent of any specific influence, and, indeed, similar to that of introducing setons in the dewlap.
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And to make no mistake, before I would use the said oil, knowing this was to bring great pain to the patient, I asked first before I applied it, what the other surgeons did for the first dressing; which was to put the said oil, boiling well, into the wounds, with tents and setons; wherefore I took courage to do as they did.
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It sometimes follows castration, docking, the introduction of setons, inclusion of a nerve in a ligature, etc.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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