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ing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

e Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

tate of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

lood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.

by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

Like a colt; wanton; frisky. He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer. -- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n.

By forgery; falsely.

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.] [Written also counterfaisance.]

f degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

That which is despaired of. "The mere despair of surgery he cures." Shak.

concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.

r bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.