fulguration
/ˌfʌlɡjʊˈreɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1 [mass noun] Medicine The destruction of small growths or areas of tissue using diathermy.The method used to surgically eradicate the tumor is classified as an optional policy, with electrocautery resection, fulguration or laser ablation cited as optional methods....
- She had a laparotomy for resection of bilateral ovarian endometriomas, resection and fulguration of peritoneal implants, and presacral neurectomy.
- These lesions were better treated by attempting fulguration with the coagulation probe.
2 literary A flash like that of lightning.Then the darkness or bloudy colour of the Sun and Moon; The shaking of the Powers of Heaven, the fulgurations of the Air and the falling of Stars.
Derivatives
fulgurant
(in sense 2).
fulgurate
- Next, the base should be fulgurated or desiccated, leaving a 2-mm margin of normal tissue.
- Electrosurgery was engineered for broader surgical treatments and uses high-frequency current between two electrodes - one active electrode and one dispersive electrode - to cut, desiccate, or fulgurate tissue.
- Electrosurgery is used routinely to cut, coagulate, dissect, fulgurate, ablate, and shrink body tissue with high frequency (ie, radio frequency) electrical current.
fulgurous
(in sense 2).
Origin
Mid 17th century (usually plural in the sense 'flashes of lightning'): from Latin fulguratio(n-) 'sheet lightning', from fulgur 'lightning'. sense 1 dates from the early 20th century.