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viscerotome Med.|ˈvɪsərəʊtəʊm|
[f. viscero- + -tome.]
An instrument for obtaining post-mortem samples of liver tissue through a puncture in the abdominal wall (avoiding necropsy), used esp. when yellow fever is suspected. Hence visceˈrotomy, the use of a viscerotome.
1934Amer. Jrnl. Hygiene XIX. 553 The attempt..led one of us (E. R. R[ickard]) to attempt the design of an instrument for the removal of liver tissue without autopsy. This instrument, later christened the ‘viscerotome’ by Dr. Mario Bião, reached a practicable stage of development within a few weeks. Ibid. 555 The opposition of relatives and friends to autopsy is greatly reduced in the case of viscerotomy. 1940Van Rooyen & Rhodes Virus Dis. of Man xxxv. 472 The viscerotome is a metal instrument..resembling a trocar, about 1 cm. square, possessing a sharp, hollow, pointed extremity fitted with a mechanically operated guillotine blade. Ibid., Viscerotomy has revealed the existence of yellow fever in places in which it had hitherto passed unrecognized. 1971P. C. C. Garnham Progr. Parasitol. iii. 24 The disease was scarcely recognized until 1934, when the introduction by Penna..of a viscerotomy service for the diagnosis of fatal cases of yellow fever revealed its presence in Brazil. Ibid., The brutal instrument, the viscerotome, is plunged through the abdominal wall of the cadaver into the liver. |