Meaning & use
Plication
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A fold or folding, especially a surgical technique that reduces the size of an organ or tissue by folding and stitching it.
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The surgeon performed a gastric plication to reduce the size of the patient's stomach.
The geologist pointed out the striking plication in the layered rock face.
A note on using this word
Plication comes from the Latin "plicare," meaning "to fold," the same root that gives English words like "complicated" and "duplicate."
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