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surgery

noun as in medical procedure

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Neuralink, in particular, aims to build an incredibly powerful brain-machine interface, a device with the power to handle lots of data that can be inserted in a relatively simple surgery.

From Vox

The damage was so severe that he needed immediate surgeries to keep him alive.

From Ozy

Ben Simmons is going to miss at least several weeks after having surgery on his knee.

As India’s lockdown lifts, elective surgeries are getting back on the track.

From Quartz

The other significant addition was Bojan Bogdanović — Utah’s second-leading scorer — and he’s now out for the playoffs thanks to wrist surgery.

When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.

He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.

“As far as we were aware, and as far as the surgeon was aware, the surgery was a go,” Shaheen sighs.

Internet chatter rose to a deafening roar as speculation began about what—plastic surgery?

As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.

Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.

He went at his job with a handy adroitness which was almost scientific, it was so much like surgery, like dissection.

I have no doubt that unpretending woman knows more about surgery than all the men doctors in New York city.

Moreover, as Dr. Lorien had stated, and as Leonard had found by actual experience, he was skilled in medicine and surgery.

Medicine and surgery—well, there's a huge program of compulsory sterilization, and another one of eugenic marriage-control.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to surgery, such as: abscission, enucleation, incision, resection, section, and aciurgy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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