sequest-, sequestr-

1. To keep a person or a group of people separated from others: "The jury will be sequestered until a final verdict can be reached."
2. To take temporary possession of property as security against legal claims: "His property will be sequestered until he pays the dept that he owes the bank."

Pertaining to or of the nature of a fragment of dead bone separated from healthy bone as a result of an injury or a disease.

An agent; such as, for example, cholestyramine resin, that binds bile acids in the intestine, thus preventing their absorption.

1. The formation of a piece of a sequestrum (a fragment of dead bone separated from healthy bone because of an injury or disease).
2. The isolation of a patient.
3. A net increase in the quantity of blood within a limited vascular area, occurring physiologically, with or without forward flow persisting, or produced artificially by the application of tourniquets.
4. The effective removal of ions from a solution by coordination with another type of ion or molecule to form complexes that do not have the same chemical behavior as the original ions: "It has been discovered that microbes may play a critical role in the sequestration of carbon in the oceans through a system termed the microbial carbon pump (MCP)."

The surgical removal of a sequestrum (a piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from the sound bone).

A piece of dead bone that has become separated during the process of necrosis from sound bone.

Forceps, or a medical tool with two long narrow parts, used for holding things during medical operations that has one with small but strong serrated jaws for removing pieces of bone that have formed in a fragment of dead bone that is separated from healthy bone as a result of an injury or a disease.