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Symphyses :: Symphyseotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.

Fettling :: Fettling (n.) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.

Process :: Process (n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature..

Trepan :: Trepan (v. t. & i.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan..

Hermetical :: Hermetical (a.) Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine..

Amalgamation :: Amalgamation (n.) The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.

Streaming :: Streaming (n.) The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams..

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

Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth..

Run :: Run (n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard..

Interpolation :: Interpolation (n.) The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series..

Heat :: Heat (n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats..

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Browning :: Browning (n.) The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc..

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..

Answer :: Answer (n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem..

Vermiculation :: Vermiculation (n.) The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines..

Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of reaping.

Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash..

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