Advancement

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<languages /><translate> (ad-vans' -ment) [Fr., avancer, to advance]. The act of bringing or going for- ward. Specifically, an operation to remedy strabismus, generally in conjunction with tenotomy, whereby the opposite tendon from the overacting one, having been cut, is brought forward, so that, growing fast in a more advanced position, it shall have more ADVENTITIA 31 AEROTHERMOTHERAPY power to act upon the globe of the eye. A., Capsular, an operation similar to that on the tendon upon Tenon's capsule. It differs from advancement in that the tendon itself is not divided. A. of the Round Ligaments, an operation for replacement of the uterus by taking up "the slack of the round liga- ments." See Operation, Alexander's. A. of Tenon's Capsule. See A., Capsular.

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