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disobstruct en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + obstruct.

Meanings

1. To clear away an obstruction.
   • Treatment is largely supportive (nasogastric suction, antibiotics, parenteral fluids and electrolytes); saline washouts of the colon and colostomy to disobstruct the bowel are the only definitive measures to arrest this complication. 1975, Peter Paul Rickham, Robert T. Soper, Urs G. Stauffer, Synopsis of Pediatric Surgery, page 151:
   • However, only nine patients in the control group did not disobstruct spontaneously and these were compared to 52 patients in whom disobstruction was spontaneous or therapeutically achieved. 2008, Giuseppe Borzellino, Claudio Cordiano, Biliary Lithiasis, page 387:
   • I hope to show that their very existence is functional: they are involved ( they were born to become involved ) in a ritual action designed to disobstruct the ascendancy to kingship of their half-brother Alfonso, rey niño, ten-year- old heir to the throne vacated by Duarte. 1979, Revista hispánica moderna - Volume 40, page 17:
   • Instead of measuring time and life in snatching at rags, let us counsel together to disobstruct the sources of riches, and organise industry, domestic labours, agricultural, manufacturing, — all the labours that produce wealth. 1969, New Moral World - Volume 5, page 175:

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Deriveds

disobstruction