Meanings of plication in English

Movements of the earth's crust, plication of strata, origin of mountains, earthquakes, etc.

A 39-year-old nurse underwent an abdominoplasty with rectus sheath plication after weight loss surgery.

All patients were symptomatic and had diaphragmatic plication via thoracoscopy.

Patients were randomized to a linear or circumferential plication configuration.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of endoscopic full-thickness plication and endoscopic radiofrequency treatments for patients with GERD.

Data indicate that defect specific posterior colporrhaphy with the avoidance of levator ani plication may improve sexual function.

Conclusions: Diaphragmatic plication with robot-assisted thoracoscopy or conventional thoracoscopy in DE has minimally invasive and good effect on children.

Background: Chordal suture plication and free edge remodeling represent a personal technique for the repair of anterior leaflet prolapse.

We present an infant who developed diaphragmatic rupture and secondary hernia following a successful diaphragmatic plication performed for congenital diaphragmatic eventration.

The rupture occurred through the normal looking diaphragmatic tissue with an intact plication suture line, which has not been reported before.

In 2 patients the cause seemed to be fixation or plication of the aortic valve annulus by the ventricular septal patch.

To counteract these shifts, the LV was remodeled by plication of the infarct region to reduce myocardial bulging, without muscle excision or cardiopulmonary bypass.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate delicate surgical maneuvers and suturing time for the management of DE in robot-assisted thoracoscopic plication (RATP).

The incidence of postoperative intestinal intussusception was reduced from 40 to 0% in those who underwent transmesenteric intestinal plication following implantation of the liver.

Plication configuration did not affect symptoms or pH monitoring results.

(3) Plication of the walls of the sac by catgut sutures, as in the Matas obliterative operation for aneurysm.