A surgical procedure involving the suturing of tissues affected by catarrh or inflammation.
From Greek en- (in) + catarrh (nasal inflammation, from Greek kata- 'down' + rhein 'to flow') + -raphy (suturing). This is a highly specialized medical term.
This word is almost extinct in modern medicine—it represents 19th-century surgical terminology for treating nasal and respiratory conditions that doctors now handle with antibiotics and modern techniques!
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