单词 | no-touch |
释义 | no-touchadj. Surgery and Medicine. Originally: designating any technique in which a surgical site, wound, etc., is touched by sterilized instruments or dressings rather than the hands (esp. for procedures performed outside an operating theatre). Later also: designating any technique in which a lesion, tissue, etc., is not touched directly by instruments or the hands. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [adjective] > method of dressing wounds no-touch1944 1944 Med. Res. Council Special Rep. Ser. No. 249. 24 ‘No-touch’ technique, and dry instruments are used throughout. 1950 Lancet 18 Feb. 294/1 A no-touch technique was used for all wounds; this was not a theatre technique, but comprised the exclusive use of sterile instruments and dressing swabs. 1981 Progress Pediatric Surg. 143 Contamination can be prevented by early skin grafts, a no-touch method when applying dressings, nursing in ventilated rooms and local antiseptics. 1990 Jrnl. Urol. 144 838 The importance of using a no touch technique in mobilizing the gland is emphasized. 2002 Jrnl. Vascular Surg. 35 356 A new ‘no-touch’ technique of saphenous vein harvesting in which the vein is harvested with a pedicle of surrounding tissue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1944 |
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