(v. t.) To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(2) Resection of the peritracheal segments of the thyroid gland with the isthmus extirpation was performed.
(3) 7 cases with bronchiectasis of left lower lobe and lingular segment were treated with left lower lobectomy and extirpation of the bronchi of lingular segment.
(4) Experiments were performed with eight head and neck tumors following their surgical extirpation.
(5) The activities of the tumour centre have proved extremely valuable as it contributes to establishing more general lines concerning biopsy, attempted total extirpation, observation, or enucleation, to the benefit of patients as well as research.
(6) Nine rat livers were extirpated after core cooling, preserved for six hours in University of Wisconsin (UW) solution at 4 degrees C and then were connected to a perfusion chamber (hypothermic preservation group: 6-hr HP group).
(7) A cavernous angioma of the tentorium cerebelli, first disclosed by perinatal serial ultrasonographic studies, was extirpated totally without remarkable neurological deficit in a neonate.
(8) Studies such as these have led increasing numbers of women to elect immediate breast reconstruction as opposed to delaying that reconstruction for months or even years after the tumor extirpation.
(9) A case is reported in a young healthy pregnant woman, who developed a granuloma gravidarum on the right side of her nasal septum, recurring several times after delivery in spite of extirpation.
(10) Seven patients underwent surgical extirpation or section of the vestibular nerve, and seven patients underwent labyrinthectomy without vestibular nerve section.
(11) None of the extirpated grafts had the same histologic pattern as the eutopic endometrium.
(12) Morbidity from local manifestations of the tumor left in situ was markedly increased, whereas those patients afforded an extirpative operation had a much improved quality of life.
(13) Extirpation of this tumor disclosed yellowish white, homogeneous mass, 101 g in weight and 7 by 7 by 3.5 cm in diameter.
(14) The treatment of patients with Wilms' tumour was narrowly coordinated by the program consisting of the surgical extirpation of the tumour, postoperative irradiation of the tumorous area at degrees II, III, IV and V and intensive adjuvant chemiotherapy.
(15) All three patients were treated with radical extirpation.
(16) Primary therapy for those patients (1979-1983) had been definitive extirpation with adjuvant therapy determined by histologic grade, histologic subtype, myometrial invasion, and peritoneal cytologic findings.
(17) Of these, approximately 23% (four of 17) had recovered auditory function before acoustic neuroma extirpation.
(18) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
(19) The removal of the affected uterus together with the pelvic lymph nodes and the extirpation of a vaginal cuff should be obligatory.
(20) Exploratory laparotomy revealed the mass to be appendiceal adenocarcinoma, which was treated with extirpation of all the visible tumor and repair of the anatomic defect.
Raze
Definition:
(n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
(v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
(v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
(3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
(5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
(6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
(7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
(8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
(9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
(10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
(11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
(12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
(14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
(15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
(16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
(17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
(18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
(19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
(20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.