Medical Term:
cerclage
Pronunciation: sair-klazh′
Definition:
- Bringing into close opposition and binding together the ends of an obliquely fractured bone by a ring or by an encircling, tightly drawn wire loop.
- Operation for retinal detachment in which the choroid and retinal pigment epithelium are brought in contact with the detached sensory retina by a band encircling the sclera posterior to the insertion of the ocular rectus muscles.
- The placing of a nonabsorbable suture around an incompetent cervical os.
[Fr. an encircling, hooping, banding]
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