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cholecystojejunostomy (medicine) and pause(1) (iou)


cholecystojejunostomy (medicine)


cholecystojejunostomy
<procedure> Establishment of a communication between the gallbladder and the jejunum.

Origin: chole-+ G. Kystis, bladder, + jejunum, + G. Stoma, mouth


pause(1) (iou)



pause noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin pausa from Greek pausis, from pausein stop, cease. In sense 3 from Italian pausa.]
An act of stopping or ceasing for a short time; a short interval of inaction or silence; a hesitation. LME.
J. Baldwin There was a short pause before morning service began.
b. Intermission, delay, hesitation, waiting. L16.
L. Grant-Adamson The kicks had left it..puffy and it throbbed without pause.
c. The facility to temporarily interrupt a mechanical or electronic process, esp. sound or Video recording or reproduction. Also (in full pause button etc.), a device controlling this. M20.
Q The system has..direct CD track access,..pause and play.
spec. A break or rest in speaking or reading, esp. at the end of a phrase, clause, or sentence; Prosody a break occurring at a fixed point in a poetic line and having a specific metrical value, a caesura. LME.
R. P. Warren They talked slowly, with little pauses.
Music.
a. A character denoting an interval of silence; a rest. M16-M18.
b. The character or placed over or under a note, rest, or silent bar, indicating that it is to be lengthened for an unspecified duration. E19.
Hebrew Grammar. The form of a word or vowel preceding any of the chief stops. Chiefly in in pause, into pause. Cf. pausal. L19.
Phrases: at pause = in a pause below. give a person pause cause a person to stop, hesitate, or doubt. in a pause, in pause pausing, hesitating; in suspense.
pausal adjective of or pertaining to a pause; spec. (Hebrew Grammar) designating the form of a word in pause, in which a vowel is changed (usu. lengthened): L19.
pauseless adjective M19.
pauslessly adverb M19.