ex-plants

[Sallie Lemons]

"Revision surgery" is not a term I am familiar with but it does sound
"fashioned." Sometimes the medical world can be really kind to themselves.

Lynne Murphy wrote:

> 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 firm 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