What is "surgeries"

Usage examples of "surgeries".

For one who had suffered permanent, life-altering debilitation from surgeries, Sickert was likely to have an interest in anatomy, especially the anatomy of the female genitalia and reproductive organs.

Sickert was born with a deformity of his penis requiring surgeries when he was a toddler that would have left him disfigured if not mutilated.

By the age of five, Sickert had undergone three horrific surgeries for a fistula.

In every Sickert biography I have read, there is no more than a brief mention of these surgeries, and I am not aware that anyone has ever gone on record to say what this fistula was or why three life-threatening operations were required to repair it.

Sutton's reference to the problem says no more than that Sickert underwent two failed surgeries "for fistula in Munich," and in 1865, while the Sickert family was in Dieppe, his great-aunt Anne Sheepshanks suggested a third attempt by a prominent London surgeon.

Helena was an infant when Sickert suffered through his surgeries, and chances are that by the time she was old enough to give much thought to the organs of reproduction, Sickert was not inclined to run around naked in front of her - or anyone else.

Since Sickert's malformation required three surgeries, his problem must not have been "trifling.

As if Sickert's childhood surgeries and subsequent dysfunctions weren't misfortune enough, he suffered from what in the nineteenth century was called "depraved conditions of the blood.

Whether Walter was chloroformed during his two surgeries in Germany is not known, although he mentions in a letter to Jacques-Emile Blanche that he remembered being chloroformed while his father, Oswald Sickert, looked on.

Cooper's corrective procedures would by necessity have been made only more extensive and painful after Walter's two earlier surgeries in Germany.

The medical implications of Sickert's early surgeries would suggest he was unable to father children, but without medical records all one can do is to speculate.

In every Sickert biography I have read, there is no more than a brief mention of these surgeries, and I am not aware that anyone has ever gone on record to say what this fistula was or why three life-threatening op­erations were required to repair it.

Whether Walter was chloroformed during his two surgeries in Ger­many is not known, although he mentions in a letter to Jacques-Emile Blanche that he remembered being chloroformed while his father, Oswald Sickert, looked on.

Cooper's corrective procedures would by necessity have been made only more extensive and painful after Walter's two earlier surgeries in Ger­many.

For one who had suffered permanent, life-altering de­bilitation from surgeries, Sickert was likely to have an interest in anatomy, especially the anatomy of the female genitalia and reproduc­tive organs.