obliterative procedure

English

Noun

obliterative procedure (plural obliterative procedures)

1. A surgical procedure that closes a biological cavity or passageway.
   • 1908, Rudolph Matas, “The Statistics of Endoaneurismorrhaphy, or the Radical Cure of Aneurism by Intrasaccular Suture”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 51, number 20, page 1670:

     Without attempting to discuss with Binnie the special types of fusiform aneurism in which the reconstruction of an artery is more or less indicated, I will simply state that in the large majority of the reported cases of aneurism of the extremities, and especially of the popliteal and fremoral (which furnish the most crucial test of the efficiency and safety of any radical method) the simple obliterative procedure proved thoroughly satisfactory in accomplishing its purpose without interfering with the vitality of the distal parts.

   • 2007, Patrick J. Culligan, Roger P. Goldberg, Urogynecology in Primary Care, page 101:

     The ultimate result of a successful obliterative procedure is that of normal appearing external genitalia, but an obliterated vaginal canal.

   • 2018, Richard D. Urman, Wendy L. Gross, Beverly K. Philip, Anesthesia Outside the Operating Room, page 161:

     Before certain obliterative procedures, awake patients may undergo Wada testing, in which a barbiturate is selectively injected into each cerebral hemisphere via the internal carotid artery to determine the dominant side for speech and memory.