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ate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.

or recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.

of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

ducing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and totte…

ich is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force. -- Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

o set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

A surgeon's rasp. Wiseman.

A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back. The food may regurgitatem the stomach into the esophagus and mouth. Quain.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.

ll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

A nickname for a surgeon.

A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon. [Eng.]

perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc. Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens. Swift. Where patience her sweet skill imparts. Keble.

inuity, the separation of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a facture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natural body a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual." Bacon. -- Standardized solution (Chem.), a solution which is used as…