TURP

n acronym for

surgery transurethral resection of the prostate: a surgical procedure in which an electronic cutting implement is fed through the urethra to remove part of an enlarged prostate

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Historical Examples of turp

Rash on the part of Turp, but the case was settled in a Rashional way.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895
Various
For years the boughs and the turp of the trees had been dropping down.
Boy Scouts in the Northwest
G. Harvey Ralphson