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cutdown
[ kuht-doun ]
noun
- reduction; decrease; diminution:
a cutdown in sales.
- Surgery. the incision of a superficial vein in order to effect direct insertion of a catheter.
adjective
- reduced in size.
- abridged or condensed:
They televised a cutdown version of the movie.
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Example Sentences
Mayhew, at the cutdown day news conference, expressed confidence in the collaborative roster-building process they’ve put in place.
I believe he was in there and did the—he helped Dr. Curtis with the cutdown, the initial cutdown.
Then, the initial cutdown that I started was ineffective and infiltrated into the tissues.
After I had completed the cutdown, I went around to the right side of the patient and saw the head wound.
Will you describe in lay language what you mean by a cutdown in relationship to what they did in this case?
And what, specifically, did you do pursuant to the cutdown on his leg?
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