1880 MacCormac Antisept.Surg. 104There is a septogenic element in ordinary air.
Ibid. 107Experiment and clinical experience alike show that it will kill a certain proportion of septo-germs.
1878 Bartley tr. Topinard'sAnthrop. i. v. 176*Septocephalic, microcephalic, small skull.
Ibid. Index,Septocephaly.
1874 W. K. Parker in Trans. LinneanSoc. Ser. ii.Zool. (1879) I. 8The bones figured are what I at first called in the Reptile ‘prævomers’, and now call ‘*septo-maxillaries’.
Ibid. 9The main septo-maxillary piece.
1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 435An ingenious ‘*septometer’ has been invented by Seiler, which serves to distinguish thickening from deviation when these affections occur separately. [ of the septum]
1967 Circulation XXXVI. Suppl. 217/1At the time of the diagnostic catheterization, atrial *septostomy is performed by the balloon-catheter technique.
1977 Lancet 18 June 1276/1 The arterial oxygen saturation was 34% and did not improve after balloon septostomy.
1966 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 June 992/2Early clinical trials on infants with TGV indicate that the procedure is as effective in prolonging life as surgical *septotomy. [ i.e. transposition of the great vessels]
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- septum
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