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Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.

The act of telling fortunes with cards.

fferences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard. [Written also kathetometer.]

tion of cutting, to relieve the structure in strangulated hernia. [Frequently written kelotomy.]

An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

An instrument for measuring charts or maps.

hey have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [Also written Chillostomata.]

Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

The dissection of cartilages.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

tion of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

See Chrisom. [Obs.] Shak.

The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.

Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. Dunglison.

See Kleptomania.

An operation for opening the colon