operating table (operatingtabl)

The tabie on which the patient rests during a surgical operation. There are many forms and constructions of these tables, the accompanying cut illustrating a particularly complicated form made adjustable to place the patient in convenient positions for various operations. IMG:content-1740.png:[ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] Operating-table. a, frame; b, base; e, upright support for lever d; e, link by which the support for the thighs is connected with the lever d; h, sector with pins for holding the lever d in adjustment; f, adjustable body support, with adjustable back-support; 1, m, n, o, adjustments for back-support k; 1. g. 1, adjustments for body-support j; 1, support for calves, held in adjustment by the ratchet-box q. Ordinarily a simple firm table of the requisite height and length and about two feet wide is used, covered with blankets or a thin mattre . operation (op-e-ra's hon), п. [ ation. operation volving subcutaneous section of the neck of the femur by a fine saw. (b) An operation for Dupuytren's contraction, consisting in the subcutaneous division of the contracted bands of the palmar fascia. - Alexander's operation, Alexander-Adams operation, the operation of shortening the round ligaments for the purpose of holding the uterus in its normal position. - All art on's operation, the modern median operation for stone in the bladder, differing from the old, or Marian operation, in that the incision, made exactly in the median line, is carried further back to the apex of the prostate, and the finger is ordinarily used in dilating the prostate and the neck of the bladder.-Amu at's operation. (a) Colotomy: an operation by a transverse incision cro ing the outer border of the quadratus lumborum. (b) For vaginal atresia: a method of dilatation by the use of the finger and dull instruments, rather than by cutting. - Anel's operation for aneurism, an operation involving ligation on the cardiac side, close to the aneurism. - Ann andale's operation, an operation for dislocated cartilages of the knee joint, involving the incision of the joint and stitching the cartilages in their proper position. - Antyllus's operation for aneurism, an operation in which ligation is practised above and below the aneurism, which is then opened and its contents evacuated.- Arlt-Jaesche's operation for distich i as is, di ecting the edge of the lid and the contained ciliary bulbs from the tarsus, removing a crescentic-shaped piece of skin from the lid above the flap, uniting the edges of the wound, and in this way transplanting the ciliary bulbs further away from the edge of the lids.- Ayers's operation for extroverted bladder, an operation involving the di ection of a long flap from the anterior wall of the abdomen, and its reversal so that the cuticular surface will be toward the exposed mu cous membrane, and the union of the loosened skin of the sides in such manner as to cover the raw surface of the flap. Barden's operation for angular ankylosis of the knee, the removal of a wedge-shaped piece of bone from the shaft of the femur, and the fracture of the remaining parorde at tes operation, the in teres in physiological influence, as in dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, neuroses and psychoses Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 84. This latter they call Energia of ergon, because it wrought with a strong and virtuous operation. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 119. Freedom of operation we have by nature, but the ability of virtuous operation by grace. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v., App. 1. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. Shak., A. and C., ii. 7. 30. 2. A specific act or activity. There are diversities of operations , but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 1 Cor. xii. 6. In the romance called The Knight of the Swan, it is said of Ydain duche Roulyon that she caused her three sons to be brought up in "all maner of good operacyons , vertues, and maners." Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 8. Attention, though closely related to the active side of the mind and illustrating the laws of volition, is a general condition of our mental operations . J. Sully , Outlines of Psychol., p. 73. 3. The course of action or series of acts by which some result is accomplished; proce . (a) Insurg., the act or series of acts and manipulations performed upon a patient's body, as in setting a bone, amputating a limb, extracting a tooth, etc. While Gersdorff, of Stra burg, probably had used the ligature in amputation wounds for some years, it remained for the genius of Paré to give to amputations a comparatively firm position among surgical operations. Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, I. 142. (b) In math., the substitution of one quantity for another, or the act of pa ing from one to the other, the second quantity being definitely related to the first, either in value or in form. An operation must not be confounded with the proce by which the operation is effected. Thus, there is but one operation of extracting the cube root of a number, but there are several different proce es. (c) In war, the act of carrying out preconcerted measures by regular movements: as, military or naval presenting relations with the menstrual function, and omy, and oophorectomy. Bauden's operation, amputation at the knee-joint by the elliptical method. - Béclard's operation for amputation at the thigh joint, amputation by anteroposterior flaps, both flaps being cut from within outward before disarticulation, the posterior one first. - Beer's operation, an operation for the extraction of cataract by the flap method. - Billroth's osteoplastic operation, an operation for the excision of the tongue, by which the soft parts and lower jaw are divided in two places at the side of the jaw, and replaced after the tongue has been removed. - Boutonnière operation. (a) For impermeable stricture: external perineal ure thro to my by division through an opening made in the urethra just beyond the stricture. (b) The extraction of a nasal polypus by the aid of an incision made in the middle line of the soft palate. - Bowman's operation, an operation for stricture of the lacrymal duct. - Brainard's operation for angular ankylosis of the knee, the fracture of the shaft of the femur, after it has been drilled subcutaneously. - Brasdor's operation for aneurism, ligation immediately below the aneurism. - Buchanan's operation. (a) For restoration of the lower lip: the elevation of an oblique flap from each side of the chin, and the union disorders. Also called spaying, normal ovariot the two flaps in the middle, allowing the places whence they come to heal by granulation. (b) A medio-lateral operation of lithotomy, with an angular staff. Buck's chiloplastic operation, an operation for supplying a deficiency in either lip by transplanting a portion of the other.-Burckhardt's operation, the opening of a retro pharyngeal absce from the outside of the neck.Burow's operation, a plastic operation for the covering of a raw surface after the removal of a tumor or other morbid growth. It consists e entially in the removal of the integument from two equal triangles situated on opposite sides and extremities of a straight basal incision, di ecting up the obtuse angled flaps thus formed, and pulling them so as to close the triangles.- Burwell's operation, the ligation of the carotid and subclavian arteries for aneurism of the innominate artery or of the first part of the aorta. Cæsarean operation. See cæsarean section, under Cæsarean.- Calculus of operations. See calculus. Calignani's operation, resection of the inferior dental nerve through an incision made between the lobe of the ear and the angle of the jaw. Callisen's operation, lumbar colotomy by a vertical incision. Capital operation, in an operation in operations. 4. The state of being at work; active exercise of some specific function or office; systematic volving some danger to life. Also called major operation. action: as, the machine is in operation.-5. Method of working; action.-6. Power exercised in producing an effect; peculiar efficacy of action; characteristic property or virtue. Harde chese hath these operacyons : it wyll kepe ye stomacke open; butter is holsome fyrst & last, for it wyll do awa ye all poysons. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 266. A good sherris-sack hath a two-fold operation in it. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 104. Something that hath the operation to Make death look lovely.