marsupialize
transitive verb
mar·su·pi·al·ize
variants
or chiefly British marsupialise
marsupialized or chiefly British marsupialised; marsupializing or chiefly British marsupialising
: to open (as the bladder or a cyst) and sew by the edges to the abdominal wound to permit further treatment (as of an enclosed tumor) or to discharge pathological matter (as from a hydatid cyst)
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