Definitions
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- noun medicine, agriculture A few silk threads or
horsehairs , or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Arculanus is said to have re-introduced the use of the seton, that is the method of producing intense counter-irritation by the introduction of some foreign body into an incision in the skin.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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A seton is the first thing; the bowels should be preserved from constipation; and the nitrate of silver, in doses of one-eighth of a grain, made into a pill with linseed meal, and increased to a quarter of a grain, should be given morning and night.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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Body Cavity Search Takes a Turn for the Worse -- During a rectal exam, immigration officers "unknowingly" pull out a seton.
Civil Rights 2007
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#8 Comment By seton On February 15, 2007 @ 10:59 am
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#8 Comment By seton On February 21, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
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#6 Comment By seton On February 13, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
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#54 Comment By seton On February 27, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
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#3 Comment By seton On February 14, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
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#10 Comment By seton On February 26, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
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#7 Comment By seton On February 26, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
frogapplause commented on the word seton
Body cavity search gone horribly wrong: Immigration officers did a rectal exam. They found a seton which treated an anal fistula. Unfortunately, they pulled it out.
June 24, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word seton
Oh, ew.
May 5, 2011