ex-plants

[Lynne Murphy]

The other term from this article that I found interesting was "revision
surgery"--i.e., surgery to correct a past surgery.  Can't decide whether
that's a euphemism or not...

Lynne

--On Friday, March 2, 2001 12:32 pm -0500 Sallie Lemons
<Sallie.Lemons at MSDW.COM> wrote:

> For whatever it is worth, I did some work on a silicone breast implant
> litigation. The first acquired batches of "explants" as exhibits. That
> term was used throughout the litigation in briefs, correspondence, and
> general conversation to mean those augmentation devices that were
> surgically removed from the body.
>
> Lynne Murphy wrote:
>
>> Interesting (new? I'd not be so bold as to make such a claim to this
>> audience)  word from an article on defective artificial body parts in
>> today's Salon:
>>
>> http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/03/02/body_parts/index.html
>>
>> Flawed implants are rare, but sometimes they make it all the way
>> from the factory to the surgeon's table to a carved-out place inside of
>> you. And unlike a station wagon, which can have a faulty transmission
>> replaced in an afternoon at the garage, the only way to retrieve a
>> defective implant, in many cases, is to cut open a human body. And since
>> there are no guidelines on how to proceed when there's an implant recall,
>> whether a surgeon removes, or "ex-plants," the device is largely a
>> judgment call.
>>
>> M Lynne Murphy
>> Lecturer in Linguistics
>> School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>> University of Sussex
>> Brighton BN1 9QH
>> UK
>>
>> phone +44-(0)1273-678844
>> fax   +44-(0)1273-671320



M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

phone +44-(0)1273-678844
fax   +44-(0)1273-671320