EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
EXPLORE FILIPINO WORDS IN DEPTH
surgical stitch; dissection...
tea (gossip)...
That's the tea; That's the gossip....
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/TIS-tis/
FIL: Ang proseso ng pagtahi sa isang sugat gamit ang karayom at sinulid na pang-opera; o ang paghiwa at pagsusuri sa isang katawan para sa pag-aaral.
EN: surgical stitch; dissection
This is what happens when you get into a fight and need your sugat sewn up at the ER ('Kailangan ng tistis yan!'). It's also what med students do to frogs or cadavers. Either way, it involves cutting and sewing, just with very different outcomes.
Can refer to the act of stitching or the stitch itself. The verb form is 'tistisin'.
🇵🇭 May malalim na sugat ang pasyente kaya kinailangan ng tistis.
🇺🇸 The patient had a deep wound so it required a surgical stitch.
🇵🇭 Pinag-aralan namin ang tistis ng palaka sa klase ng Biyolohiya.
🇺🇸 We studied the dissection of a frog in Biology class.
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