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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.

One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.

A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.

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.

A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight.

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…

Relating to thermodynamics; caused or operated by force due to the application of heat. Thermodynamic function. See Heat weight, under Heat.

A system in which a third rail is used for carrying the current for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

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.