"tarsectomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Transactions of the American Surgical Association, volume 8, page 82:",
          "text": "That no less than eleven different forms of tarsectomy have been described for the cure of club-foot would seem to show that surgeons have not found any one of these operations giving perfectly satisfactory results.",
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          "ref": "1995, J.P. Ivory, I.M. Nugent, A.C. Ross, Key Topics in Orthopaedic Surgery, published 2005, page 189:",
          "text": "In the rigid foot with fixed deformity, a wedge tarsectomy or triple arthrodesis with tibialis posterior transfer is necessary.",
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          "ref": "2012, Piet deBoer, Richard Buckley, Stanley Hoppenfeld, Surgical Exposures in Foot & Ankle Surgery: The Anatomic Approach, page 170:",
          "text": "Transverse incisions are used best for wedge tarsectomy.",
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          "ref": "1995, Bhupendra C. K. Patel, Richard L. Anderson, “Levator aponeurosis repair”, in Thomas C. Naugle, Jr., Richard J. Hesse, Constance L. Fry, editors, Diagnosis and Management of Oculoplastic and Orbital Disorders: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Symposium, page 25:",
          "text": "An important advantage of using Whitnall's sling procedure or the superior tarsectomy modification is that the other alternatives are still available if these procedures should give unacceptable results.",
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          "ref": "2005, Edwina A. McConnell, Teddy Jones, A Stone for Every Journey: Traveling the Life of Elinor Gregg, R.N., page 215:",
          "text": "One of the more radical treatments, tarsectomy, removes the eyelid's cartilage plate and the result can be inability to fully elevate the lids, just as you feel now.",
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          "ref": "2011, David T. Tse, Color Atlas of Oculoplastic Surgery, 2nd edition, page 94:",
          "text": "As parents are often opposed to surgery on the normal eye, considerable improvement may be obtained and further surgery deferred or avoided if a maximal aponeurotic resection (Whitnall's sling) procedure with a superior tarsectomy is performed first.",
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        "(surgery) The operation of removing one or more tarsi (plates of connective tissue, one found in each eyelid)."
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          "ref": "1995, J.P. Ivory, I.M. Nugent, A.C. Ross, Key Topics in Orthopaedic Surgery, published 2005, page 189:",
          "text": "In the rigid foot with fixed deformity, a wedge tarsectomy or triple arthrodesis with tibialis posterior transfer is necessary.",
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        },
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          "text": "An important advantage of using Whitnall's sling procedure or the superior tarsectomy modification is that the other alternatives are still available if these procedures should give unacceptable results.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2005, Edwina A. McConnell, Teddy Jones, A Stone for Every Journey: Traveling the Life of Elinor Gregg, R.N., page 215:",
          "text": "One of the more radical treatments, tarsectomy, removes the eyelid's cartilage plate and the result can be inability to fully elevate the lids, just as you feel now.",
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          "ref": "2011, David T. Tse, Color Atlas of Oculoplastic Surgery, 2nd edition, page 94:",
          "text": "As parents are often opposed to surgery on the normal eye, considerable improvement may be obtained and further surgery deferred or avoided if a maximal aponeurotic resection (Whitnall's sling) procedure with a superior tarsectomy is performed first.",
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