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Dizziness with dimness of sight. [Obs.] Massinger.

Sluggish; slow. [Prov. Eng.]

Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

The operation of removing a staphyloma by cutting.

A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball.

A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision. [R.] Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. Milton.

of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section. [Written also symphysotomy.] Dunglison.

Symphyseotomy.

Symphyseotomy.

Brevity; conciseness. [R.]

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

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

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of classification.

The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

Zoötomy.

The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.