commissurotomy
/ˌkɒmɪsjəˈrɒtəmi/ /ˌkɒmɪʃəˈrɒtəmi/Surgery and Medicine
noun
1The procedure of widening the orifice of a valve of the heart, especially the mitral valve, originally by incisions made at the commissures of the orifice and later also by other techniques; an instance of this.
2The procedure of incising or dividing a commissure of the nervous system; an instance of this.
Origin
1940s. From commissure + -o- + -tomy.
- pulsation theory
- pulsative
- pulsator
- pulsatory
- pulse
- pulse amplifier
- pulse amplitude modulation
- pulse code
- pulse code modulation
- pulse coding
- pulse column
- pulse compression
- pulse curve
- pulsed column
- pulsed Doppler
- pulse dialling
- pulse-Doppler
- pulse duration modulation
- pulse frequency modulation
- pulse glass
- pulse jet
- pulse-label
- pulseless
- pulselessness
- pulse-like