单词 | peritomy |
释义 | peritomyn. Surgery. 1. Circumcision. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > circumcision > [noun] circumcisionc1175 circumcisinga1300 peritomy1789 posthetomy1846 1789 G. Campbell in tr. Four Gospels I. Diss. viii. ii. 355 We have deserted the Greek names where the Latins have deserted them... Hence we say circumcision, and not peritomy. 1993 G. Bennington tr. J. Derrida Circumfession xiii, in Jacques Derrida 68 Circumcision, another word for peritomy, that cutting of the surround [Fr. péritomie, cette coupure du pourtour], is instituted by the mother. 2. Ophthalmology. Excision of a strip of conjunctiva around the cornea; an instance of this. Also called syndectomy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the eye couching1743 reclination1820 strabotomy1844 iridectomy1855 iridotomy1855 iridodesis1858 enucleation1867 peritomy1869 syndectomy1869 iridodialysis1876 sclerotomy1876 capsulotomy1877 needling1879 evisceration1883 cyclodialysis1908 vitrectomy1968 1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 19 Syndectomy—Peritomy.—This operation was first practised by Dr. Furnari, of Paris, in 1862. It consists in excising a band of conjunctiva and subconjunctival tissue..from around the cornea. 1889 G. A. Berry Dis. Eye i. ii. 62 Performing the operation of peritomy or syndectomy. 1928 Isis 10 249 The Arabs knew of..a great many ophthalmic operations. Among the eye-diseases unknown to the Greeks I may mention the pannus.., and the cure of this disease by peritomy. 1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xvi. 196 In the operation of peritomy, a collar of conjunctiva, 5 mm. broad, is excised round the corneal margin. 2003 Ophthalmic Res. 35 306 Surgery consisted of a conjunctival peritomy of 8 mm in the superior limbus followed by extensive subconjunctival dissection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789 |
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