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SUBVOLUTION

\səbvəlˈuːʃən], \səbvəlˈuːʃən], \s_ə_b_v_ə_l_ˈuː_ʃ_ə_n]\

Definitions of SUBVOLUTION

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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[Latin] The operation of turning over a flap. e. g., that formed by dissecting up a pterygium, so that the upper (mucous or cutaneous) surface comes to lie in contact with the raw surface made by the dissection.

1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
By Alexander Duane

The turning over of a flap.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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