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ap·proach

(ă-prōch'),
1. In psychiatry, a term describing how interpersonal relationships are negotiated, often with the connotation of positive relationship. Compare: avoidance.
2. The path or method used to expose the operative field during an operation.
[M.E., fr. O. Fr., fr L.L. appropio, to come nearer, fr. ad, to + propius, nearer]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

ap·proach

(ă-prōch')
1. psychiatry A term used to describe how interpersonal relationships are negotiated.
2. The path or method used to expose the operative field during an operation.
[M.E., fr. O. Fr., fr L.L. appropio, to come nearer, fr. ad, to + propius, nearer]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

ap·proach

(ă-prōch')
The path or method used to expose the operative field during an operation.
[M.E., fr. O. Fr., fr L.L. appropio, to come nearer, fr. ad, to + propius, nearer]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012

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As he approached he was received with the usual challenge:
Living masses of the English, to the amount, in the whole, of near three thousand, were moving slowly across the plain, toward the common center, and gradually approached each other, as they converged to the point of their march, a vista cut through the lofty trees, where the road to the Hudson entered the forest.
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The wood-chopper was seen broiling his supper on the coals as they lost sight of the fire, and when the boat approached the shore, the torch of Mohegan’s canoe was shining again under the gloom of the eastern mountain.
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Numa lay in his path and as Tarzan approached growled menacingly.
It was dark when the two approached the British right, after a slight delay farther back because of a German patrol it had been necessary to elude.
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The poor wretch approached with hesitation, the alternate dread of famine and of white men operating upon his mind.
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As he approached the mighty cat the creature stepped warily to one side, and the ape-man brushed past him within a foot of the dripping jaws, and as he continued on through the forest the panther followed on behind him, as a hound follows at heel.
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He stood head-on eyeing us as we approached him, for we had found it a waste of time to attempt to escape the perpetual bestial rage which seems to possess these demon creatures, who rove the dismal north attacking every living thing that comes within the scope of their far-seeing eyes.
One of them was peering round the edge of the granite mass as though watching one who approached from the opposite side.
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He would take a look within, thought Tarzan, and so, cautiously, he approached the low thatched building.
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Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.
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They approached the spot where the unfortunate victims lay.
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