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Answer for the clue "Surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) ", 14 letters:
electrosurgery

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) the application of high-frequency electric current to tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate it

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Electrosurgery is the application of a high-frequency (radio frequency) alternating polarity, electrical current to biological tissue as a means to cut, coagulate , desiccate , or fulgurate tissue. (These terms are used in specific ways for this methodology—see ...