Word Meanings - ENTEROTOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

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• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• SCISSORSTAIL
  A tyrant flycatcher of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• SCISSORS
  A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors. Scissors grinder , the European goatsucker. (more
• OPENLY
  1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show
• OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
  See OPEN
• OPENER
  One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.
• OPENWORK
  A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. (more info) 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• OPEN DOOR
  Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind. Lowell. In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon
• OPEN-HEARTED
  Candid; frank; generous. Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. Walton.
• CANALICULUS
  A minute canal.
• SCISSORS-TAILED
  Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.
• INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm , any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal.
• OPENBILL
  A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. , under Beak.
• OPEN VERDICT
  A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
• GASTROINTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric. (more info) Med.)
• TWOPENNY
  Of the value of twopence.
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• POST-MORTEM
  After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. Post-mortem examination , an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.
• COPENHAGEN
  A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
• REOPEN
  To open again.
• SCOLOPENDRA
  A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. 2. A sea fish. Spenser.
• LIENO-INTESTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno- intestinal vein of the frog.