deobstruct

present singular third person deobstructs · participle present deobstructing · participle past deobstructed · past deobstructed

1. medicineTo clear (something) of obstructions.

   […] he exhibited an instrument which he had invented for deobstructing the Fallopian tubes in such cases.

   1850, Edward Tilt, chapter 5, in On Diseases of Menstruation and Ovarian Inflammation, London: John Churchill, page 144

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   […] we humbly desire of God […] [that] he will be pleas’d to convey to them [the people of Ireland] the notices of their danger, and their sin, and to deobstruct the passages of necessary truth to them,

   1664, Jeremy Taylor, A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland, Dublin: John Crooke, Preface to the Reader

   […] such as carry off the Foeces and Mucus, deobstruct the Mouths of the Lacteals, so as the Chyle may have a free Passage into the Blood.

   1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 19, p. 274

   Synonyms: unblock