| Thiersch's graft operation | The application of a partial thickness skin graft. Synonym: Thiersch's graft operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Thiersch's operation | The application of a partial thickness skin graft. Synonym: Thiersch's graft operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Elliot's operation | Trephining of the eyeball at the corneoscleral margin to relieve tension in glaucoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Torek operation | A two-stage operation for bringing down an undescended testicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Emmet's operation | <medicine> The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus. Origin: Gr. Neck + to sew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Trendelenburg's operation | A pulmonary embolectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Esser operation | A skin graft wrapped (raw side out) around a bolus of dental compound and inserted into a prepared surgical pocket. Synonym: epithelial inlay, Esser graft. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Estes operation | An operation for sterility in which a portion of an ovary is implanted on one uterine cornu. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Estlander operation | Use of an Estlander flap in plastic surgery of the lips. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jacobaeus operation | An obsolete term for pleurolysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jansen's operation | An operation for frontal sinus disease, the lower wall and lower portion of the anterior wall being removed and the mucous membrane curetted away. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kasai operation | An operation for biliary atresia in which a Roux-en-Y loop of jejunum is anastomosed to the hepatic end of the divided extravascular portal structures, including rudimentary bile ducts. Synonym: Kasai operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kazanjian's operation | Surgical extension of the vestibular sulcus of edentulous ridges to increase their height and to improve denture retention. See: ridge extension. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Keen's operation | Removal of sections of the posterior branches of the spinal nerves to the affected muscles, and of the spinal accessory nerve, as a cure for torticollis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Keller-Madlener operation | <procedure, surgery> An operation for treatment of gastric ulcer located in the proximal cardia that involves 75% gastrectomy and gastrojejunostomy. (05 Mar 2000) |