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Alteration

Modifying the anatomic structure of a body part without affecting the function of the body part.

Bypass

Altering the route of passage of the contents of a tubular 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 a mucous membrane.

Control

Stopping or attempting to stop post procedural bleeding.



Creation

Making a new genital structure that does not physically take the place of a body part.

Destruction

Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the direct use of energy, force or a destructive agent.

Detachment

Cutting off all or a portion of the upper or 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 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 explaining a body part.

Map

Locating the route of passage of electrical impulses and/or locating functional areas in a body part.

Occlusion

Completely closing an orifice or lumen of a tubular body part.

Reattachment

Putting back in or on all or a portion of a separated body part to its normal location or other suitable location.

Release

Freeing a body part from an abnormal physical constraint.

Removal of Device from

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

Partial closing the orifice or lumen of a tubular body part.

Revision

Correcting, to the extent possible, a portion of a malfunctioning or the position of a displaced device.

Suppplement

Putting in or on biologic or synthetic material that physically reinforces 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 of all or a portion of a similar body part.