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Operation :: Operation (n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols..

Ovariotomy :: Ovariotomy (n.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oophorectomy.

Venesection :: Venesection (n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.

Reap :: Reap (v. i.) To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the

Amputation :: Amputation (n.) The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.

Lucid :: Lucid (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval..

Plumming :: Plumming (n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines..

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Laryngeal :: Laryngeal (a.) Of or pertaining to the larynx; adapted to operations on the larynx; as, laryngeal forceps..

Relation :: Relation (n.) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to, an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time, by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun at that time. In such case the act is said to take effect by relation..

Labiodental :: Labiodental (a.) Formed or pronounced by the cooperation of the lips and teeth, as f and v..

Anaplasty :: Anaplasty (n.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Inverse :: Inverse (a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x..

Concourse :: Concourse (n.) Concurrence; cooperation.

Symbol :: Symbol (n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation..

Uvulatomy :: Uvulatomy (n.) The operation of removing the uvula.

Rhinoplastic :: Rhinoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation..

Event :: Event (n.) The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates..

Elimination :: Elimination (n.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities..

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