Surg. (a) The act or process of cleansing a wound or sore, the removal of pus or other impurities by means of cleansing medicines; (b) a detergent or cleansing property. …

Anat. & surg. (a) A joint or joining (of bones); (b) setting (of bones or fractures). …

(a) A billet or shingle; astel shid; (b) firewood; (c) surg. a splint. …

Surg. A strong caustic medicine. …

A pipe or tube. …

(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia. …

Surg. (a) A hollow sheath or tube through which a suturing needle or a cauterizing instrument is passed; fenestred canule, a tube with a hole, or window, in the side; (b) a tube inserted in the body……

(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a……

Surg. Shredded linen, surgical lint. …

(a) A nail; (b) surg. a cauterizing instrument with a nail-shaped head; ?also, cauterization with such an instrument. …

Surg. An instrument used to cut small holes in the skull, a borer, trepan; 'instrument for removing discs of bone from skull, trepan' [Norri]. …

Surg. A knife-shaped cauterizing instrument. …

(a) Med. & surg. A medicine or ointment that prevents the growth or spread of disease, venom, humors, etc. [cp. defensif medecine]; (b) an ointment that preserves corpses. …

(a) Defense against physical attack; (b) reply, refutation; (c) fig. help; protection against temptation, sorrow, etc.; (d) punishment; (e) surg. a preventive measure or medicine. …

(a) That which defends, defense; (b) surg. a covering, protection. …

Surg. Dislocation of a bone; also, displacement of an organ. …

Surg. A compress made of small folds of cloth. …

Surg. A lancet used for letting blood. …

Surg. Of a medicine: capacity for sticking, glutinosity. …

Surg. The jugular veins. …