for the first big cut they make to perform an autopsy? It's biggish word that sounds like, but isn't evisceration.
Anyone?
Anyone?
What is that medical word -
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Thanks for trying. It's one word - I used it once when I was describing an autopsy; it's the cut from the chest down to the pubic bone. I always forget it.
It's a lovely word, but impossible to google.
It's a lovely word, but impossible to google.
I know. And I'm hampered from googling too much because I'm a little bit squeamery around photos of autopsies and sometimes they're there, unannounced.
It is the y incision - there's just (or there used to be) another word for it. It's right at the tip of my tongue. Grrr!
google it.
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And I googled it for you. All I could find was 'Y-shaped' from the first few links. There's some non gorey stuff available, with detailed drawings or even cartoons
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And I googled it for you. All I could find was 'Y-shaped' from the first few links. There's some non gorey stuff available, with detailed drawings or even cartoons
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Thoracoabdominal incision?
Bleh. I feel like that's probably not what you're looking for.
That's the only name I can find besides Y shaped.
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Before I opened the thread, I was hoping that the answer to your question was 'anomia'.
(Sorry. I can't think of a special term for that initial incision.)
(Sorry. I can't think of a special term for that initial incision.)
I used the word in a miniseries I wrote in 1993. Don't make me go and hunt it out again, AW. Someone knows that word!!
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We just called it the midline. Maybe transverse midline. Never heard any other description, but never was a medical professional either.
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I have a lot of medical literature at home, including forensic pathology, and observed several autopsies, and I've never heard any other term than Y-incision or Y-cut. I don't mean to be rude, but are you sure the word you used in 1993 means what you think it means?
I've never heard "midline" as a synonym for a Y-cut either. A midline incision is one straight incision, but a Y-incision also involves two oblique cuts. No part of a Y-incision is transverse.
Bronx Science is a prestigious magnet high school in New York. Very sciency.
I really wonder what it is. I did a seach and found nothing except Y incision. I'd love know another obscure term.
Are you thinking of 'epigastric'? That's a midline incision, although it's specific to the upper gastric area, I believe
Not for the Y, just the midline portion, tail of the Y. Some pathologists use a U shape for the top as well. Referring to the entire cut it's always been a Y cut that I've dealt with. (Grew up next door to husband and wife pathologists, same term was used in the 1970's.)
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I had it from someone who was doing autopsies, and when I asked what the word meant, he explained. But I've been careless - it's not the incision itself, it's the over-arching (possibly latin?) word for the act of opening up the body into a viewable stage.
Bufty - thanks but I want the mc to use the word because that's the way she speaks. She's a very old woman with a highly specific background. She tends to use dense language and simplify it down with a word or two. And in its defense it is a beautiful word. one of those ones that sound so pretty and mean something awful.
I'm going to hunt out my old script on the weekend and see if I can find it. I'll let you know.
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No - but, actually I like that. I'm liking all of these words.
You're all very helpful people. There will be rep points...
Any more words?
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