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Surgical procedure   /sˈərdʒɪkəl prəsˈidʒər/   Listen
Surgical procedure

noun
1.
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.  Synonyms: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical process.  "He died while undergoing surgery"






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"Surgical procedure" Quotes from Famous Books



... medical history of circumcision is intimately connected with the remotest ages, this being, in fact, the earliest surgical procedure of which we have any record. From the same records we obtain hints as to two conditions for which circumcision probably was suggested, either as a preventive or ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino



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