disobstruction

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noun

The removal of an obstruction

Scrabble 19

Meanings

noundisobstruction (plural disobstructions)

plural disobstructions

  1. The removal of an obstruction

    The patient was successfully treated with the placement of a metallic tracheal stent following a Nd-Yag laser-assisted disobstruction of central airways.

    2015, Raffaele Scala et al., “Amyloidosis involving the respiratory system: 5-year's experience of a multi-disciplinary group's activity”, in Annals of Thoracic Medicine, volume 10, →DOI
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    Improvement works on the river Branco shall commence with the disobstruction and straightening of the channel of Cajubirim, sufficient to ensure easy navigation next winter season with the township of Boa Vista.

    1913, Pamphlets on Forestry in Brazil - Volume 2, page 50

    However, only nine patients in the control group did not disobstruct spontaneously and these were compared to 52 patients in whom disobstruction was spontaneous or therapeutically achieved.

    2008, Giuseppe Borzellino, Claudio Cordiano, Biliary Lithiasis, page 387

Origin

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Chicago

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