(surgery) proctosigmoidectomy

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

(medicine) alcohol septal ablation

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.

(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.

plural of remote procedure call

An eye muscle operation designed to improve the excyclotorsion experienced by some patients with cranial nerve IV palsy. The superior oblique tendon is split, and the anterior fibers are moved anteriorly and laterally so as to stretch and tighten them selectively, enhancing incyclotorsion.

pancreatojejunostomy

(chemistry) A technique used in Gabriel synthesis, involving reaction with aqueous or ethanolic hydrazine at reflux. This produces a precipitate of phthalhydrazide along with the primary amine.