Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of shattering or breaking.
- noun In surgery, removal of a part, as a tumor, a little at a time instead of by excision in mass.
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- noun surgery The
breaking into smallpieces prior toremoval
Etymologies
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From morcellate + -ation
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Examples
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They reported that when you factored out morcellation times, operating times were similar.
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