| interval operation | An operation performed during a period of quiescence or of intermission in the condition necessitating surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Italian operation | Italian method rhinoplasty utilizing a flap from the arm. Synonym: Italian method, Italian operation, tagliacotian operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ogston-Luc operation | An operation for frontal sinus disease; a skin incision is made from the inner third of the edge of the orbit toward the root of the nose or outward; the periosteum is pushed upward and outward, and the sinus is opened on the outer side of the median line; then a wide opening is made by curetting the nasofrontal duct, interior of the sinus, and anterior ethmoid cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ogura operation | Orbital decompression by removal of the floor of the orbit through an opening made in the supradental (canine) fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ombredanne operation | A technique whereby the mobilised testis is brought down into the scrotum and through the scrotal septum, to be affixed to the tissues in the contralateral scrotal pouch. Synonym: transseptal orchiopexy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tagliacotian operation | Italian method rhinoplasty utilizing a flap from the arm. Synonym: Italian method, Italian operation, tagliacotian operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| talc operation | An obsolete operation in which magnesium silicate (talc) powder is applied to the epicardium to create a sterile granulomatous pericarditis and thus promote pericardial anastomoses with the coronary circulation. Synonym: poudrage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| TeLinde operation | An extended hysterectomy in which a portion of the upper vagina is removed; the ureters are exposed and pulled back laterally without dissection from the ureteral bed. Synonym: TeLinde operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thiersch's graft operation | The application of a partial thickness skin graft. Synonym: Thiersch's graft operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |