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seton, n. Surg.|ˈsiːtən|
Forms: 5–6 ceton, 7 setton, 8 seaton (9 illiterate seething), 5– seton.
[ad. med.L. sētōn-em, app. f. L. sēta bristle, in med.L. also silk. Cf. OF. seton, ceto (mod.F. séton), It. setone.]
1. A thread, piece of tape, or the like, drawn through a fold of skin so as to maintain an issue or opening for discharges, or drawn through a sinus or cavity to keep this from healing up (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 308 The .x. cauterie is clepid ceton. Ibid. 310 Alle þese cauterijs wolen be maad best wiþ seton. 1541Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. P ij b, Rounde cauteres, or cauteres with cetons, that kepeth it better open. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 22/1 Applyinge of the corrosive in place of a Seton. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋255 A Seton or coard of twisted thred or silk is runne through on both sides the skin of the neck. 1714[see rowel n. 6]. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 75 The defendant attempted to pass a seething up the wound. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 841 Some farmers introduce a seton into the dewlap of all their calves... The seton consists of a piece of tape or soft cord passed under a portion of the skin by a seton-needle. 1895Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Dec. 1492/1 It was replaced by a tight seton of quadrupled cord.
b. seton-needle, a needle used for passing a seton through the skin.
1672Wiseman Wounds i. vii. 61, I passed a Seton-needle through, and that way discharged the Matter. 1831Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) §6537 When the seton needle is removed, the ends of the tape should be joined together.
2. The issue so formed.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 43/1 The Seton, properlye, the threde which we drawe through the skinne with the needle... Improperly, a longe stretchinge vlceration which is cleane thrust throughe the dubble skinne with a glowinge Cauterye. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 430/1 This Needle being..heated red hot..makes a Seton, or perforates the flesh almost paineless. 1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Glanders, First to make a Seaton under the Tail and in the Withers. 1846F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 59 The seton is a kind of issue made by piercing the skin in two corresponding points, and passing through them a mèche of cotton, or a bit of linen unravelled at the edges. 1860Jessie Wilson Mem. G. Wilson 323 Lecturing ten, eleven, or more hours weekly..frequently with torturing setons and open blister wounds.
fig.1849Clough Dipsychus ii. i. 32 A sort of seton, I suppose, A moral bleeding at the nose.
Hence ˈseton v., to apply a seton. ˈsetoned ppl. a., ˈsetoning vbl. n.
1541Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. P ij, The fyfth place is the necke where as cetons are applied with tonges cetoned or with a nedle cetonned. 1845Youatt Dog vi. 118, I have bled, and physicked and setoned, and blistered, and used the moxa. 1897Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 254 Many plans of prevention [of blackleg] have been adopted, such as bleeding, setoning [etc.]. |