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The use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)
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cryosurgery
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n. the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers)
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Cryosurgery (cryotherapy) is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue. The term comes from the Greek words cryo (κρύο) ("icy cold") and surgery ( cheirourgiki – χειρουργική) meaning "hand work" or "handiwork". Cryosurgery ...
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n. (context medicine English) The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.
Usage examples of cryosurgery.
United States on the relatively new science of cryogenics and cryosurgery, and had been one of a number of people whose bodies had been frozen in the hope of reviving and curing them at some unspecified future date.
In December of the year 2000, Mildred, an expert on cryosurgery, had been taken into hospital for minor abdominal surgery.
If they tried the knife, or laser, or cryosurgery, they would be left with a nice, healthy, breathing piece of meat.