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The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

The act or operation of systematizing.

Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]

A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.] They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. R. Browning.

The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.]

A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation. Testing machine (Engin.), a machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature. Murdock.

n assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

r spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especi…

The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.

A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.

ntrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. Tomlinson. To throw away. (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money. (b) To reject; as, to…

The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.