A surgical technique, used in the treatment of chronic pancreatitis, in which the diseased portions of the pancreas head are cored out. A lateral pancreaticojejunostomy is then performed in which a loop of the jejunum is then mobilized and attached over the exposed pancreatic duct to allow better drainage.

(slang, rare) Synonym of emasculation (severing of somebody’s penis).

(surgery) proctosigmoidectomy

The surgical treatment of severe epilepsy by destroying nerve cells in the brain where the seizures originate.

(medicine) alcohol septal ablation

plural of collection procedure

Synonym of debt collection

(surgery) A form of vaginoplasty in which the patient's peritoneum is used to construct a neovagina or to lengthen an abnormally short vagina.

plural of Davydov procedure

(computing) A technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space, commonly on another computer on a shared network, without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.