Read by: 42,845 pet lovers. Mandibulectomy is a surgical procedure in which a portion of the lower jaw is removed. This can involve both sides of the jaw or just one side. Up to three-quarters of the entire lower jaw can be removed.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  attune(Verb) to bring into musical accord. 2  attune(Verb) to tune an instrument. 3  attune(Verb) to bring into harmony or accord.
To obtund is to dull or lessen the pain of something. If your senses have been obtunded, you are probably pretty out of it. The verb obtund is rare today, used mainly in medical terminology, and usually in the form of the adjective obtunded. It's been around since about 1400, meaning to make dull or to make less sensitive, and rooted in the Latin obtundere, to blunt or weaken, or literally to beat against..