disobstruct

English

Etymology

Verb

disobstruct (third-person singular simple present disobstructs, present participle disobstructing, simple past and past participle disobstructed)

To clear away an obstruction.
- 1969, New Moral World - Volume 5, page 175:
  Instead of measuring time and life in snatching at rags, let us counsel together to disobstruct the sources of riches, and organise industry, domestic labours, agricultural, manufacturing, — all the labours that produce wealth.
- 1975, Peter Paul Rickham, Robert T. Soper, Urs G. Stauffer, Synopsis of Pediatric Surgery, page 151:
  Treatment is largely supportive (nasogastric suction, antibiotics, parenteral fluids and electrolytes); saline washouts of the colon and colostomy to disobstruct the bowel are the only definitive measures to arrest this complication.
- 1979, Revista hispánica moderna - Volume 40, page 17:
  I hope to show that their very existence is functional: they are involved ( they were born to become involved ) in a ritual action designed to disobstruct the ascendancy to kingship of their half-brother Alfonso, rey niño, ten-year- old heir to the throne vacated by Duarte.
- 2008, Giuseppe Borzellino, Claudio Cordiano, Biliary Lithiasis, page 387:
  However, only nine patients in the control group did not disobstruct spontaneously and these were compared to 52 patients in whom disobstruction was spontaneous or therapeutically achieved.

Derived terms

disobstruction