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Containing or resembling butter.  

An incision (sometimes inadvertent) into the wall of a cavity or membrane. This term may be applied to surgical procedures on hollow organ systems such as the gastrointestinal, urinary tract, and cardiovascular systems and to some of myocutaneous grafts.  

The liquid left after the separation of butter from milk or cream. It contains 2% fat. Cultured buttermilk is made by adding streptococci to milk to give it a sour flavor. The residual liquid that persists after the process of churning sweet or sour milk or cream, which causes the separation of butter from it.…

An adhesive bandage used in place of sutures to hold wound edges together.  

An herb, Petasites hybridus, from which an herbal remedy is made for treatment of migraine headache and allergic rhinitis.  

A gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon derived from petroleum.  

Generalized nonpitting edema that begins on the head or neck and spreads to the body. This lasts a year or less and leaves no sequelae. The cause is unknown.  

An infection of the skin and underlying tissues with Mycobacterium ulcerans. The infection, which is common in tropical and subtropical nations, develops slowly from a painless or minimally painful nodule on the skin into underlying bone, which it gradually destroys. The spread of the disease may be prevented with bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.  

A blue line along the margin of the gingiva visible in chronic lead poisoning.  

Any pathological condition of a bursa.