We will typically expand one side of the chest cavity at a time, with each surgery separated by six months to one year. The surgery involves a collaborative effort between thoracic surgery and plastic surgery. Ribs four through nine are approached.
Top definition. a tool. an offensive comment, mainly aimed towards the male of the species, when one is being particularly nasty, stupid, or facetious.
implement 1454, from L.L. implementem a filling up (as with provisions), from L. implere to fill, from in- in + plere to fill (see plenary). Sense of tool is 1538, from notion of things provided to do work, that which fills up a house, etc. The verb is 1806, originally chiefly in Scot., where it was a legal term meaning fulfillment.. It led to the wretched formation implementation, first recorded 1926.