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The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.

The designation of position and direction. B. G. Wilder.

The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Division into three parts.

An incision of the urethra, esp. incision for relief of urethral stricture.

The operation of removing the uvula.

Excision of a varicosity.

Resection or excision of the vas deferens.

Face; countenance. [Colloq.] Spenser. Lamb.

Art of preparing sections (transverse, tangential, or radial) of wood, esp. by means of a microtome, for microscopic examination.

The laws animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

tomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

Pertaining to adenotomy.

in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.