Operation vs Laparotomy - What's the difference?
operation | laparotomy |
The method by which a device performs its function.
The method or practice by which actions are done.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
* John Locke
* Dryden
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
(medicine) a surgical procedure.
(computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
(military) a military campaign (e.g. )
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
* Fuller
(surgery) The surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity. Performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.
As nouns the difference between operation and laparotomy
is that operation is operation (method by which a device performs its function) while laparotomy is (surgery) the surgical procedure for making an incision in the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity performed either as exploratory surgery, or as the first step in an abdominal operation.operation
English
(wikipedia operation)Noun
(en noun)- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
- The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
- Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- The bards had great operation on the vulgar.