Word Meanings - SYRINGOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

Related words: (words related to SYRINGOTOMY)

• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• FISTULATE
  To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.
• FISTULA
  A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal
• FISTULAR
  Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.
• CUTTLE BONE
  The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.
• CUTTINGLY
  In a cutting manner.
• CUTTLE
  A knife. Bale.
• CUTTOO PLATE
  A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
• CUTTER
  1. One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments. 2. That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
• FISTULARIA
  A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
• CUTTLE; CUTTLEFISH
  A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally. Note: It has an
• FISTULARIOID
  Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• STONECUTTING
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• SCREW-CUTTING
  Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
• STONECUTTER
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• SCUTTER
  To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows. Kipling.
• WOODCUTTING
  1. The act or employment of cutting wood or timber. 2. The act or art of engraving on wood.