tenotomy
Americannoun
plural
tenotomiesnoun
Other Word Forms
- tenotomist noun
Etymology
Origin of tenotomy
Example Sentences
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The patients were chiefly children, having the most diverse surgical ailments, among which may be mentioned hip disease and abscess, genu valgum without operation, necrosis of femur, hydrocele with explorative operation, a scald, a sinus over the great trochanter, spinal disease with abscess, tenotomy for club-foot, and vesical calculus with operation.
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The double tenotomy of the externi performed on January 2nd was first followed by convergent squint with homonymous double images, which were united by a prism of 12° with the base inwards.
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Finally, if an elastic preponderance of the externi can be proved by means of considerable facultative divergence, the same may be lessened by tenotomy of one or both externi; still after my own experience I cannot advise the performance of this operation unless prisms of at least 16° are overcome by absolute divergence, for I have seen many patients in other practices who have acquired convergent squint and diplopia for distance as the sole result of the operation, while the asthenopic troubles for near objects continue.
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The first explanation hit upon was that a false identity became established, an inequality of the retinæ; were this the case diplopia must of necessity occur on correction of the squint by tenotomy.
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It is an every-day experience that a person who squints, who has just asserted his inability to read the largest type, immediately afterwards reads smaller and the smallest type, and it would at least first have to be determined that all endeavours to produce a better visual result before tenotomy were unsuccessful; but as the communication stands, the conclusion as to the effect of tenotomy is quite a superficial post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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