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noun
- A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
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noun
- the act of scarifying - of raking the ground harshly to remove weeds etc
- a medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron
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verb (scarifies, scarifying, scarified, scarified)
- To scar.
- denude, Denude, or lay waste to.
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noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually including a handle used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- ''She kept a in the dog food
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- Use one of coffee for each pot.
- I'll have one of chocolate ice-cream
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
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noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part, piece, division.
- A part of a document.
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To commit, as for mental health reasons
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proper noun (also Seth)
- An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.
| | sex change |
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noun - (medicine) the surgical or hormonal modification of a person's biological gender
| | shunt |
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noun
- A switch on a railway
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
- (informal) A minor collision
verb - To turn away or aside
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
- To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
- (informal) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
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noun
- A trap made from a loop of wire, string, or leather.
- (rare) A mental or psychological trap; usually in the phrase a snare and a delusion.
- (context, veterinary) A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
- (music) A set of chains strung across the bottom of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- (music) A snare drum.
verb (snar, ing)
- to catch or hold, especially with a loop
| | sound |
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noun
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. (He turned when he heard the of footsteps behind him.)
- Nobody made a .
- A vibration capable of causing this.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce a sound.
- When the horn sounds, be careful.
- (rfex) (transitive) To state or utter, especially with deliberation; to repeat.
- (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
- He sounds the instrument.
- (intransitive) To arise or to be recognizable as arising within a particular area of law.
- "There can be no doubt that claims brought pursuant to § 1983 in tort."
- -City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd., 526 U.S. 687, 709 (1999).
adjective (sounder, soundest)
- healthy, Healthy.
- He was safe and .
- complete, Complete, solid, or secure.
- Fred assured me the floorboards were .
- (context, British, slang) Good or a good thing.
- "How are you?" - "I'm ."
- That's a track you're playing.
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noun (pl=speculums, pl2=specula)
- (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
- A mirror.
| | splenectomy |
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noun (splenectomies)
- (context, surgery) The surgical removal of the spleen.
| | sponge |
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noun
- (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica
- (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic)
- (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of
- (informal) A heavy drinker
- (countable, uncountable) A light cake
- (countable, uncountable, UK) A type of steamed pudding
- (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge)
verb (spong, ing)
- (slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
- He has been sponging off his friends for a month now.
- To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
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noun
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- (italbrac, Commonwealth slang) potato
- A hole in a sock.
verb (spud, d, ing)
- To begin drilling an oil well.
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noun (stomata)
- (botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
- A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
- (zoology) A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.
- An artificial anus.
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noun
- a long, thin piece of a bigger item
- You use strips of paper in papier mache.
- a series of drawings, a comic
- a landing strip
- a street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities
- (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
verb (strip, p, ing)
- (transitive) To remove or take away.
- Norm will the old varnish before painting the chair.
- (transitive) To take off clothing.
- (intransitive) To do a striptease.
- (transitive) To completely take away, to plunder.
- The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
- (transitive) To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive) (in Bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
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noun
- One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
- The refused to operate because the patient was her son.
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noun (surgeries)
- (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- Many times is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- An room or department where surgery is performed.
- I would discuss hospital policy to you more, but I"m wanted in .
- A doctor's consulting room.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to pick up my prescription.
- Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
- Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
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adjective
- of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery
- precise or very accurate
- The building was destroyed with a air-strike.
| | surrogate mother |
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noun
- A woman who gives birth to a child not her own, with the intent to give that child up to at least one of the biological parents once it is born.
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