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ex·tir·pate

 (ĕk′stər-pāt′)
tr.v. ex·tir·pat·ed, ex·tir·pat·ing, ex·tir·pates
1.
a. To destroy totally; kill off: an effort to reintroduce wildlife that had been extirpated from the region.
b. To render absent or nonexistent: "No society ... is devoid of ... religion, even those ... which have made deliberate attempts to extirpate it" (Roy A. Rappaport). See Synonyms at eliminate.
2. To pull up by the roots.
3. To remove by surgery.

[Latin exstirpāre, exstirpāt- : ex-, ex- + stirps, root.]

ex′tir·pa′tion n.
ex′tir·pa′tive adj.
ex′tir·pa′tor n.
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Extirpative treatment (manual removal of placenta).
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Such procedures were limited in their accuracy in that they required assessment of two-dimensional imaging prior to surgery and performing extirpative procedures with little intraoperative guidance.
If extirpative surgery (hysterectomy) is performed for placenta accreta in the lower segment, the technical difficulty associated to total instead of subtotal hysterectomy might result in urologic and hemostasis complications.
Still, only a few extirpative procedures were being performed via a laparoscope route.
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