| Freund's operation | Total abdominal hysterectomy for uterine cancer, chondrotomy to relieve Freund's anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Freund, Jules | <person> U.S. Bacteriologist, 1891-1960. See: Freund's complete adjuvant, Freund's incomplete adjuvant. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| freund's adjuvant | The complete version of this immunostimulating adjuvant contains heat-killed tuberculosis bacteria emulsified in white mineral oil. It is used in immunological research involving lab animals, but not in humans, since it could cause allergic responses or autoimmune problems. The bacterial cells are omitted in the incomplete verson of the adjuvant. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Freund's anomaly | A narrowing of the upper aperture of the thorax by shortening of the first rib and its cartilage; formerly believed to predispose to tuberculosis because of defective expansion of the lung apex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Freund's complete adjuvant | Water-in-oil emulsion of antigen, to which killed mycobacteria or tuberculosis bacteria are added. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Freund's incomplete adjuvant | Water-in-oil emulsion of antigen, without mycobacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Freund, Wilhelm | <person> German gynecologist, 1833-1918. See: Freund's anomaly, Freund's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abbe operation | Use of an Abbe flap in plastic surgery of the lips. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Arie-Pitanguy operation | A procedure to reduce a large breast by a lozenge-shaped resection of tissue from its inferior pole. Synonym: Arie-Pitanguy mammaplasty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Arlt's operation | Transplantation of the eyelashes back from the edge of the lid in trichiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arterial switch operation | Operation for complete transposition of the great arteries; the most common way to repair this defect consists of switching the aorta and pulmonary arteries and implanting the coronary arteries into the neoaorta (the original pulmonary artery). (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baldy's operation | An obsolete operation for retrodisplacement of the uterus, consisting of bringing the round ligaments through the perforated broad ligaments and attaching them to each other and to the back of the uterus. Synonym: Webster's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ball's operation | Division of the sensory nerve trunks supplying the anus, for relief of pruritus ani. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Barkan's operation | Goniotomy for congenital glaucoma under direct observation of the anterior chamber angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bassini's operation | An operation for an inguinal hernia repair; after reduction of the hernia, the sac is twisted, ligated, and cut off, then a new inguinal canal is made by uniting the edge of the internal oblique muscle to the inguinal ligament, placing on this the cord, and covering the latter by the external oblique muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baudelocque's operation | An incision through the posterior cul-de-sac of the vagina for the removal of the ovum, in extrauterine pregnancy. (05 Mar 2000) |