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"a surgical appendix" "a surgical procedure"adjectiverelating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
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"a surgical air strike"adjectiveperformed with great precision
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"surgical instruments" "surgical intervention"of or relating to or involving or used in surgeryOpposite:
Definition that contains surgical
- castration surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
- vasectomy surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible
- lobotomy surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes
- hysterectomy surgical removal of the uterus
- gastrectomy surgical removal of all or part of the stomach
- pancreatectomy surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas
- ppp surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)
- embolectomy surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery)
- hemostasis surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)
- mastectomy surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor