counter-openingn.
An opening opposite another; spec. in Surgery, an opening made in an abscess opposite to one already existing, to facilitate the discharge of matter.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Contr-'ouverture, a counter-opening.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. p. xxiv The place for a counteropening.
1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 271 Immediately made free incisions and counter-openings in the parts which contained the matter.
1882 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
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