plication

plication
A folding or putting together in pleats; specifically, an operation for reducing the size of a hollow viscus by taking folds or tucks in its walls. [L. plico, pp. -atus, to fold]

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pli·ca·tion plī-'kā-shən n
1) the tightening of stretched or weakened bodily tissues or channels by folding the excess in tucks and suturing <\plication of the neck of the bladder>
2) the folding of one part on and the fastening of it to another (as areas of the bowel freed from adhesions and left without normal serosal covering)

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n.
a surgical technique in which the size of a hollow organ is reduced by taking tucks or folds in the walls.

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pli·ca·tion (pli-kaґshən) [L. plicatus, past part. of plicare to fold] a folding; the taking of tucks in any structure to shorten it, or in the walls of a hollow viscus.

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