See Also: cochleosacculotomy(medicine)

inviolate (iou) and cochleosacculotomy (medicine)


inviolate (iou)



inviolate adjective. LME.
[Latin inviolatus, formed as IN-3 + violat- pa. ppl stem of violare VIOLATE verb: see -ATE3.]
Free or exempt from violation; uninjured, unimpaired, unbroken; not profaned or debased.
John Brooke He took with him assurances of the King's inviolate attachment. B. Magee The truth is to be kept inviolate, and handed on unsullied.
inviolacy noun inviolateness M19.
inviolately adverb L15.
inviolateness noun the quality of being inviolate M19.

cochleosacculotomy (medicine)


cochleosacculotomy
<procedure> An operation for Meniere's disease performed through the round window to create a shunt between the cochlear duct and the saccule.