Thanks......

"excising the whatever in toto"

meaning he completely removed the skin, lesion, whatever. No documentation, but that is the way I have been typing it for him for a couple of years now...

"in toto" -- "in the whole" (per http://www.main-vision.com/richard/Latin2.htm)

Val

Just saw the other post and glad to see it.

[This message has been edited by Valentine58 (edited 01-28-2000).]

Another one that gets missed a lot is "en bloc." So often I see it "in block."