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PCS Root Operations

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TermDefinition
Bypass Altering the route of passage of the contents of a tubular body part.
Alteration Modifying the anatomic structure of a body part without affecting the function of the body part.
Change Taking out or off a device from a body part and putting back an identical or similar device in or on the same body part without cutting or puncturing the skin or mucous membrane.
Control Stopping, or attempting to stop, postprocedural or other acute bleeding.
Creation Putting in or on biological or synthetic material to form a new body part that to the extent possible replicates the anatomic structure or function of an absent body part.
Destruction Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the direct use of energy, force, or destructive agent.
Detachment Cutting off all or a portion of the upper and lower extremities.
Dilation Expanding an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part.
Division Cutting into a body part, without draining fluids and/or gases from the body part, in order to separate or transect a body part.
Drainage Taking or letting out fluids and/or gases from a body part.
Excision Cutting out or off, without replacement, a portion of a body part.
Extirpation Taking or cutting out solid matter from a body part.
Extraction Pulling or stripping out or off all or a portion of a body part by the use of force.
Fragmentation Breaking solid matter in a body part into pieces.
Fusion Joining together portions of an articular body part rendering the articular body part immobile.
Insertion Putting in a nonbiological appliance that monitors, assists, performs, or prevents a physiological function but does not physically take the place of a body part.
Inspection Visually and/or manually exploring a body part.
Map Locating the route of passage of electrical impulses and/or locating functional areas in a body part.
Occlusion Completing closing an orifice or lumen of a tubular body part.
Reattachment Putting back in or on all or a portion of a separate body part to its normal location or other suitable location.
Release Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint by cutting or by use of force.
Removal Taking out or off a device from a body part.
Repair Restoring, to the extent possible, a body part to its normal anatomic structure and function.
Replacement Putting in or on biological or synthetic material that physically takes the place and/or function of all or a portion of a body part.
Reposition Moving to its normal location, or other suitable location, all or a portion of a body part.
Resection Cutting out or off, without replacement, all of a body part.
Restriction Partially closing an orifice or the lumen of a tubular body part.
Revision Correcting, to the extent possible, a portion of a malfunctioning device or the position of a displaced device.
Supplement Putting in or on biological or synthetic material that physically reinforces and/or augments the function of a portion of a body part.
Transfer Moving, without taking out, all or a portion of a body part to another location to take over the function of all or a portion of a body part.
Transplantation Putting in or on all or a portion of a living body part taken from another individual or animal to physically take the place and/or function of all or a portion of a similar body part.
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