Definitions of The Root Operation Part 2

Question 1

Taking or letting out fluids and/or gases from a body part

Answer 1

Drainage

Question 2

Taking or cutting out solid matter from a body part

Objective is to remove solid material such as a foreign body, thrombus, or calculus from the body part.

Answer 2

Extirpation

Question 3

Breaking solid matter in a body part into pieces

Answer 3

Fragmentation

Question 4

Cutting into a body part without draining fluids and/or gases from the body part in order to separate or transect a body part

Objective of the procedure is to cut into, transect, or otherwise separate all or a portion of a body part. Severing a nerve root to relieve pain

Answer 4

Division

Question 5

Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint by cutting or by use of force

Some of the restraining tissue may be taken out but none of the body part is taken out. Freeing a nerve root from surrounding scar tissue to relieve pain

Answer 5

Release