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slit

[slit]
(design engineering)
A long, narrow opening through which radiation or streams of particles enter or leave certain instruments.
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Our patient was a diabetic who presented with phimosis and a dorsal slit revealed the underlying ulceroproliferative lesion.
Penile tuberculosis presenting as phimosis
The first, and likely not the last, randomised controlled trial'8details use of the Gomco circumcision clamp with cyanoacrylate skin adhesive, compared with the open surgical dorsal slit technique under local anaesthesia.
Advances in surgical procedures in SA
A bite-block tube can be constructed by creating a central perforation in a soft rubber bite-block by enlarging the dorsal slit.
Bite-block tube for airway-management during electroconvulsive therapy

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