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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surgery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cosmetic surgery
elective surgery
elective surgery such as hip replacements
keyhole surgery
lifesaving surgery/treatment/drugs etc
▪ The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
open-heart surgery
plastic surgery
reconstructive surgery
▪ He’s recovering well from reconstructive surgery on his nose.
tree surgery
undergo treatment/surgery/an operation
▪ The cyclist underwent emergency surgery yesterday after a collision with a car.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
▪ After defensive end Charles Haley had back surgery last month, the coaches moved tackle Leon Lett to end.
▪ Defenseman Dmitri Mironov is likely out for the season following back surgery....
▪ Person is expected to be out for the season after back surgery last month.
▪ Tocchet had back surgery after the 1993-94 season and missed 12 games last season with back problems.
cardiac
▪ I hope that the waiting list for cardiac surgery will reduce greatly over the next year.
▪ Heart disease, then major cardiac surgery and now what is being described as pneumonia have kept him from work.
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
▪ There was no cardiac surgery unit in the two districts studied.
▪ In addition, cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied.
▪ Any renal unit serving a district with cardiac surgery facilities would have significantly more patients developing acute postoperative renal failure.
▪ Two different points to consider For many elderly patients it will be decided that cardiac surgery is not clinically indicated.
▪ The rate of stroke in high-risk cardiac surgery patients receiving aprotinin therapy is lower than would be anticipated.
coronary
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
cosmetic
▪ I have seen too many people who have looked odd after cosmetic surgery.
▪ We talked about cosmetic surgery and we asked to see the scars.
▪ Have cosmetic surgery every two years?
▪ Women who undergo cosmetic surgery still far outnumber their male counterparts.
▪ Talking point - Cosmetic surgery Would you spend thousands on a new face?
▪ More women are now undergoing cosmetic surgery more and more often.
▪ It would be so even if cosmetic surgery were painless, which it most definitely is not.
▪ The aim is to tell the surgeons about a survey which shows the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery.
dental
▪ If the tooth is loosened in its socket, modern dental surgery may be able to fix it to adjacent teeth.
▪ The familiar smell of the dental surgery comes from oil of cloves, a component of some dental cements.
▪ We have our own dental surgery, physio department, dispensary, X-ray unit.
▪ Bone collected during dental implant surgery: a clinical and histological study.
▪ I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk, but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches.
▪ People who can't afford private treatment will be forced to visit school dentists or mobile dental surgeries.
elective
▪ The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated.
▪ The hospital delayed elective surgeries, but the day otherwise went smoothly, a spokeswoman said.
▪ Diagnostic tests and elective surgeries may be postponed or ordered less frequently.
further
▪ This was to be our first meeting since the threat of further surgery or at the least, drugs.
▪ She still faces further surgery to repair her eyelids, which we re partially destroyed and do not fully close.
▪ A further group with anastomotic recurrences are often unsuitable for further surgery.
▪ A biopsy was inconclusive and further surgery was advised.
▪ The former tennis player had a quadruple heart by-pass in 1979 and further surgery in 1983.
▪ He has already undergone one operation and faces further surgery.
▪ Yesterday a Durham Police spokesman said the consultant in charge of Pringle had told detectives he is to undergo further surgery next month.
▪ Thanks to Robodoc's accuracy, doctors hope further surgery will not be necessary this time.
gastric
▪ The cause for this is not clear but one factor could be the higher proportion of miners who had had gastric surgery.
▪ Delayed gastric emptying after surgery was confirmed in only 20% of patients referred with this clinical diagnosis.
▪ Patients with previous oesophageal or gastric surgery were excluded from the study.
▪ Previous gastric surgery was uncommon in all three groups and showed no significant difference.
▪ Previous gastric surgery was not a feature of our tumour group as has been suggested by previous studies.
▪ Persistant pain is often reported after gastric surgery and management is difficult.
▪ Conversely, operations that divert bile away from the stomach will ameliorate dysplastic features induced by previous gastric surgery.
▪ None of these patients had had previous gastric surgery.
general
▪ Preventative medicine should be practised in every general practice surgery in the country.
▪ The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals.
▪ The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery.
▪ The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre.
▪ And about geriatrics never again being isolated from general medicine and surgery.
▪ Organ donor cards are available from most hospitals, general practice surgeries, dispensing pharmacists, and social security offices. 9.
▪ They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner's surgery.
▪ The money will be used to help patients waiting for operations in orthopaedic, urology, general and oral surgery areas.
major
▪ Read in studio A team of cancer specialists has developed a new treatment that reduces the need for major surgery.
▪ And, short of major corporate surgery, none of these are likely to change.
▪ Mr Readman said Pringle had to undergo major surgery to his jaw in the middle of June before police could interview him.
▪ What was done was major surgery.
▪ The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery.
▪ Still, major surgery may not be necessary.
▪ The jeweller has undergone major surgery for his injuries but is now out of intensive care.
▪ If treatment is needed the success rate is very high. Major surgery is rarely necessary.
minor
▪ Others increased provision of minor surgery with a view to reducing referrals to certain specialties.
▪ I wished for my Mom to take care of me after minor surgery last year.
▪ The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated.
▪ Finally he decided to enter the hospital for minor surgery, in the hope of seeing more of her there.
▪ There is only one reported case associated with minor dermatological surgery and that was from the United States in 1987.
▪ We have already ear-marked one fine beech for only minor surgery.
▪ Had had, so Sammler was told, minor surgery.
open
▪ The two men agree their chances of survival without open heart surgery were slim.
▪ With today's 99 percent success rate the future for most open heart surgery patients is rosy.
▪ Under the current arrangements, the priorities within open heart surgery are decided solely by the clinicians concerned.
▪ The co-pilot Jim had a scar on his chest from open heart surgery.
▪ And bravely once again she's opted for an open surgery.
▪ Despite the development of radiation strictures in three patients none required open surgery.
plastic
▪ One way of exorcizing such fear and longing is to submit to the ghastly ritual of plastic surgery.
▪ HOUSTONRight before Geni Hefner had plastic surgery to repair her battered face, she sat in her apartment and recalled the horror.
▪ Later, police rushed the damaged nose part to hospital where it was sewn back on by delicate plastic surgery.
▪ Carrillo died last July 4 from complications following extensive plastic surgery and liposuction.
▪ Medical care at the hospital was soon expanded to include rehabilitation and plastic surgery.
previous
▪ Only one patient was non-white. Previous gastric surgery was uncommon in all three groups and showed no significant difference.
▪ Patients with abnormal findings at endoscopy or who had had previous surgery were excluded from the study.
▪ Conversely, operations that divert bile away from the stomach will ameliorate dysplastic features induced by previous gastric surgery.
▪ None of these patients had had previous gastric surgery.
▪ No patient had a coexisting medical complaint likely to affect bile acid metabolism nor had any undergone previous bowel surgery other than appendicectomy.
radical
▪ The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably, but it has continued to endure.
▪ Despite the radical surgery, the workers' bodies were the same as they had been in Britain.
▪ Yet without fairly radical surgery, the long-term health of the company might have been in jeopardy.
▪ King then recommended even more radical surgery.
▪ Action was being undertaken, but it was far removed from the radical surgery that seemed to be needed.
▪ Improvements in drug therapy are being introduced all the time, reducing the need for radical surgery.
reconstructive
▪ She made a documentary about having reconstructive surgery, to help other women understand what the process was like.
▪ Surgeons who performed reconstructive surgery encountered many problems similar to those faced by their medical colleagues.
▪ He's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose.
▪ Next came a small hospital with a reconstructive surgery unit equipped with prosthetic and orthotic appliances and other inputs.
▪ A plastic surgeon said no decision would be made on whether they needed reconstructive surgery until their wounds healed.
▪ A senior, Anchrum missed 33 games after reconstructive surgery on his right knee.
▪ After barely surviving her ordeal, the young woman began years of reconstructive surgery.
▪ Now, with Rice out while he recovers from reconstructive knee surgery, the ball is being spread around.
■ NOUN
brain
▪ He was given a brain scan there that showed he did not need immediate brain surgery.
▪ We learned an elaborate preparatory procedure that made scrubbing for brain surgery seem dilatory.
▪ The procedure, Incidentally, can and has been performed on patients undergoing brain surgery.
▪ It has become a standard in much of brain surgery today.
▪ In brain surgery then, there was only a local anaesthetic and the patient was semi-conscious.
▪ This view is strengthened by the fact that direct stimulation of the brain can produce sensory impressions in patients undergoing brain surgery.
▪ The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.
bypass
▪ Will he urgently encourage all boards to purchase coronary artery bypass surgery and other cardiac surgery from Great Britain?
▪ Yeltsin underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery on Nov. 5.
▪ Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes?
▪ About 300, 000 patients undergo bypass surgery annually, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.
▪ When the only alternative was standard bypass surgery, most might have gone with angioplasty.
▪ Yeltsin, 66, suffers from heart problems, recently underwent bypass surgery and was stricken with pneumonia last month.
cancer
▪ On that day, Mobutu made a triumphal return from four months of convalescence abroad after prostate cancer surgery.
▪ The year after her cancer surgery, her kidneys gave out and one had to be removed.
▪ During his 1985 cancer surgery, Reagan did cede power to Bush for eight hours.
emergency
▪ One boy, who was shot three times, had emergency surgery and was on a respirator.
▪ Eight patients have required emergency surgery coinciding with the unrestricted reintroduction of food after remission induced by diet.
▪ He was later brought to the Mater Hospital and underwent emergency surgery.
▪ News of the arrests comes on the day that another pensioner underwent emergency surgery following a separate vicious robbery.
▪ Father-of-three Andrew Cockle, 31, was taken to hospital with neck and chest injuries but died after emergency surgery.
▪ Mrs Hayward needed emergency surgery after the bullet narrowly missed her heart.
heart
▪ Lymon died from a heroin overdose, Garnes during heart surgery and Negroni from a stroke.
▪ Has the price of heart surgery gone up in the last five hundred years?
▪ The two men agree their chances of survival without open heart surgery were slim.
▪ Among many recent attempts to measure spirituality in relation to health, heart surgery patients help make a point.
▪ With today's 99 percent success rate the future for most open heart surgery patients is rosy.
▪ Galway who has made a full recovery after heart surgery a year ago, now follows a careful diet.
▪ Under the current arrangements, the priorities within open heart surgery are decided solely by the clinicians concerned.
▪ The co-pilot Jim had a scar on his chest from open heart surgery.
keyhole
▪ Basingstoke and North Hampshire Medical Trust have hosted a special reception evening launching phase two of the keyhole surgery appeal.
▪ Advances in keyhole surgery and laser treatment mean much speedier recovery.
▪ It said this would bring positive improvements like more keyhole surgery, reduced waiting lists, and a day surgery unit.
knee
▪ Inspiration Four hamstring operations and two bouts of knee surgery later, Ian Snodin is back and back in central midfield.
▪ Jenkins made his first 1996 appearance on Sunday, after recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery he had last month.
▪ Carl Bradshaw starts for United, but Brian Gayle is out after knee surgery.
▪ McElroy has the breakaway speed that seems to have eluded Hearst since knee surgery during his rookie season.
▪ But now his injuries have caught up with him, despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery.
▪ And the Suns may get forward Danny Manning, who is recovering from knee surgery, back soon.
▪ Stoke, still searching for a League win, recall £250,000 front-man Biggins, fit after knee surgery.
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
■ VERB
consider
▪ Indeed, according to the results for Birmingham, about 2% of people have an aneurysm large enough to be considered for surgery.
▪ Based on these findings the Doppler controlled injection treatment of Dieulafoy's disease could be considered an alternative to surgery.
follow
▪ Tiny Kane Elmore died after becoming infected with the bacteria following heart surgery.
▪ Wexford followed her into the surgery.
▪ Defenseman Dmitri Mironov is likely out for the season following back surgery....
▪ Aprotinin has been used to reduce the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis following hip surgery.
▪ Certain women with negative lymph nodes, for example, might not need chemotherapy, radiation or hormone treatments following surgery.
▪ Carrillo died last July 4 from complications following extensive plastic surgery and liposuction.
need
▪ He was given a brain scan there that showed he did not need immediate brain surgery.
▪ He needed surgery to fix the shoulder and they tell me they repaired some kind of separation.
▪ Little Odessa Blagajek has a heart tumour which needs immediate surgery.
▪ Portland made the trade for me even though they knew I needed surgery.
▪ And £1.5m-rated midfielder Gary Owers is still waiting to discover whether he needs surgery on a troublesome groin injury.
▪ A plastic surgeon said no decision would be made on whether they needed reconstructive surgery until their wounds healed.
▪ And Platt admits that he is likely to need surgery in the near future to cure the ailment.
▪ The sources have said Johnston definitely needs surgery if he wants to play football again.
perform
▪ In 52 patients, radiotherapy with 30 Gy was performed before surgery.
▪ Surgeons who performed reconstructive surgery encountered many problems similar to those faced by their medical colleagues.
▪ They also perform surgery, detect radiation and play records.
▪ The group raised the $ 3, 000 for the procedure, but no doctor has expressed willingness to perform the surgery.
▪ The doctor performing the surgery on Shutt is called Denise Potter, in an ode to the inspiration.
▪ They have performed 40 surgeries in the last year-and-a-half.
recover
▪ By last night only one victim remained in hospital - a 25-year-old man recovering from surgery to remove glass from his arm.
▪ And the Suns may get forward Danny Manning, who is recovering from knee surgery, back soon.
▪ Rideout has been troubled by the problem for some time and will need six weeks to recover after surgery.
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
▪ In Tokyo, however, recovering from major surgery, she dropped out after 16 miles.
▪ Howe noted that it often takes a pitcher two years to completely recover from elbow surgery.
▪ But now his injuries have caught up with him, despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery.
▪ Later, bassist Mike Mills recovered from abdominal surgery and Michael Stipe recovered from a hernia operation.
remove
▪ As well as treatment of port wine stains, other lasers can be used to remove tattoos or in surgery.
▪ Maybe he'd had his taste buds removed by surgery.
▪ Medics will also use the kit to ensure all cancerous cells have been removed during tumour surgery.
repair
▪ Roebuck's ankle required surgery to repair the lateral and medial ligaments.
▪ HOUSTONRight before Geni Hefner had plastic surgery to repair her battered face, she sat in her apartment and recalled the horror.
▪ A Flight Lieutenant underwent surgery to repair a broken blood vessel in the brain.
▪ Louis in the Royce Clayton deal, underwent arthroscopic surgery last Saturday to repair a small tear in his pitching shoulder.
▪ She still faces further surgery to repair her eyelids, which we re partially destroyed and do not fully close.
require
▪ Eight patients have required emergency surgery coinciding with the unrestricted reintroduction of food after remission induced by diet.
▪ Any real solutions would require more surgery than Huckelberry currently wants to recommend.
▪ Roebuck's ankle required surgery to repair the lateral and medial ligaments.
▪ Seles has lost something on her serve this year because of a shoulder problem that will require surgery.
▪ However, there were complications that required additional surgery, jaundice possibly caused by gall-bladder disease, and pneumonia.
▪ Since the advent of treatment with bran, fewer patients have required surgery for the complications of diverticular disease.
▪ She will remain on a ventilator for several days and will then require months of surgery and post-operative care.
treat
▪ Once the oviduct is blocked, it is difficult to treat by surgery or other means.
▪ Warts can also be treated with minor surgery.
▪ There is no significant difference in the causes of death between those treated by surgery and those receiving sclerotherapy.
▪ The primary lesion is generally treated with pituitary surgery or irradiation, or both.
undergo
▪ The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably, but it has continued to endure.
▪ Two players, Danny Manning and Wayman Tisdale, underwent arthroscopic surgery to treat injuries.
▪ More women are now undergoing cosmetic surgery more and more often.
▪ If she undergoes surgery, it will take place in a private hospital and will be paid for by Zapatista supporters.
▪ Yesterday a Durham Police spokesman said the consultant in charge of Pringle had told detectives he is to undergo further surgery next month.
▪ Stressors can also be negative events, like dealing with an irate boss, getting stuck in traffic, or undergoing surgery.
▪ He was later brought to the Mater Hospital and underwent emergency surgery.
▪ Ratliff underwent surgery Wednesday and could be out at least 2-to-4 weeks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(heart) bypass operation/surgery
sth is not brain surgery
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an injury requiring major surgery
▪ Before undergoing surgery, patients should discuss the various options with their doctor.
▪ He's currently recovering from surgery on his right knee.
▪ heart surgery
▪ Last year, she underwent surgery for breast cancer.
▪ patients on the waiting list for heart surgery
▪ She needed emergency surgery after the accident.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
▪ He underwent chemotherapy and surgery to remove the tumor and his right testicle.
▪ Rodriguez spent most of last year rehabbing his right shoulder after surgery.
▪ Scientists found the new strain in an infant boy after he underwent heart surgery.
▪ She'd been in the surgery exactly two minutes.
▪ Six of these died between 10 to 60 days after surgery.
▪ The doctor performing the surgery on Shutt is called Denise Potter, in an ode to the inspiration.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surgery

Surgery \Sur"ge*ry\, n. [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. ?. See Surgeon.]

  1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

  2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surgery

c.1300, sirgirie, "medical treatment of an operative nature, such as cutting-operations, setting of fractures, etc.," from Old French surgerie, surgeure, contraction of serurgerie, from Late Latin chirurgia (see surgeon).

Wiktionary
surgery

n. 1 (context medicine English) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body. 2 (senseid en medical specialty)(context medicine English) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures. 3 A room or department where surgery is performed. 4 (senseid en doctor_consulting) (context British English) A doctor's consulting room. 5 (context British English) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery. 6 (context finance bankruptcy slang English) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy". 7 (context topology English) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

WordNet
surgery
  1. n. the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

  2. a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"

  3. a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre]

  4. a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" [syn: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process]

Wikipedia
Surgery

Surgery (from the cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via , meaning "hand work") is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas (for example, a perforated ear drum).

An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply surgery. In this context, the verb operate means to perform surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse. The patient or subject on which the surgery is performed can be a person or an animal. A surgeon is a person who practices surgery and a surgeon's assistant is a person who practices surgical assistance. A surgical team is made up of surgeon, surgeon's assistant, anesthesia provider, circulating nurse and surgical technologist. Surgery usually spans minutes to hours, but it is typically not an ongoing or periodic type of treatment. The term surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian.

Surgery (politics)

A political surgery, constituency surgery, constituency clinic or sometimes advice surgery, in British and Irish politics is a series of one-to-one meetings that a Member of Parliament (MP), Teachta Dála (TD) or other political officeholder may have with his/her constituents, at which a constituent may raise issues of concern, in much the same way that a person may directly consult a GP in his or her surgery (a "surgery" being the term for the GP's workplace, an "office" in American parlance). The issues may relate to local issues (street crime, litter, a request for intervention by the representative on behalf of the constituent with local or national government) or to national policy matters. Often the constituent's issue will be followed up by a caseworker or assistant.

It is up to each MP to decide whether they have any surgeries at all or if so, how many and in what locations. MPs often use local party offices, church halls or rooms in public houses as the venues, with a number of surgeries possibly being held at different locations around a constituency. Surgeries are traditionally held on Fridays or at weekends when MPs have returned from sittings of parliament in Westminster. Some MPs' surgeries are "appointment only", some "drop-in", and others a mix. An MP with a large constituency will sometimes hold surgeries in a wide range of locations during the summer recess.

In Republic of Ireland, clinics/surgeries are an even more important source of publicity and contact for Teachtaí Dála (TDs) and other representatives, as under the PR-STV system there are very few truly safe seats. One paper published by Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Irish Studies states

Surgery (disambiguation)

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative treatment.

Surgery may also refer to:

Surgery (album)

Surgery is the third full-length album by American psychedelic rock band The Warlocks. It was released by major label Mute in 2005, and was produced by the high profile Tom Rothrock.

The album also marks the first time the US and UK releases have featured identical track listings.

Surgery (band)

Surgery was an American noise rock band formed in 1987 by Scott Kleber, John Lachapelle, John Leamy and Sean McDonnell in Syracuse, New York, and released two full-length albums and two EPs before ending with the sudden death of singer Sean McDonnell.

Surgery (journal)

Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering surgery. It was established in 1937 and is published by Elsevier. It is sponsored by the Society of University Surgeons, the Central Surgical Association, and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. The editors-in-chief are Michael G. Sarr ( Mayo Clinic) and Kevin E. Behrns ( University of Florida). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 3.309.

Usage examples of "surgery".

A strange case turned up at the surgery today, it might be a variant of psychic blindness or amaurosis, but there appears to be no evidence of any such symptoms ever having been established, What are these illnesses, amaurosis and that other thing, his wife asked him.

Her morning surgery had spread until it had almost overlapped the early afternoon antenatal clinic, and her list of house-calls had lasted right up to the start of evening surgery.

Once in a while, Simpson would let general surgery residents do a proximal anastomosis, just to throw them a bone.

More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.

Maybe if she found a higher paying job she could afford liposuction or bariatric surgery or one of those hypnosis clinics that kept sending emails.

He rode the slidewalks and escalators until, half a mile above the ground, he came to his regular Tuesday-evening eateasy, a swank and illegal little restaurant with a grubby exterior that proclaimed to all nonmembers that it was a branch of a silicone surgery beautification chain.

Before he had been asleep very long, however, the surgery bell was violently rung, and, having dressed himself with the rapidity characteristic of doctors and schoolboys, he descended to find a frightened footman waiting outside, from whom he gathered that something dreadful had happened to Lady Bellamy, who had been found lying apparently dead upon the floor of her drawing-room.

Sheldon Blau after he developed a life-threatening infection in his bloodstream following surgery, an all-too-common occurrence.

In writing about hospital-caused errors in medication, in surgery, in laboratory tests, and just in admitting patients, Blau offers a nostrum known to any hospital patient.

Figure 279 represents a somewhat similar hypertrophic condition of the scalp and face reported in the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.

I, lined and wrinkled, leaning, tucked in, shaking just a bit in the limbs, aching just a bit in the joints, showing patches and patterns of incorrect color, purples on the legs, brown maculae on the arms, swirls and masses on the face beneath the surgery and appliances.

I trust Malva to administer the ether, if I had to perform emergency surgery?

The sole bright spot in this ruddy quagmire was that Thomas Christie, quite contrary to my expectations, had allowed Malva to continue to come to the surgery, his sole stipulation being that if I proposed to involve his daughter in any further use of the ether, he was to be told ahead of time.

And I moved to go over to him, to take his arm and make him listen while I told him about what was happening to my mum in the hospital down the road that morning, to tell him about the surgery, and to use words like mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, lymphoedema, until I saw him squirm with shame at his cowardice.

The exploratory surgery had turned into a mastectomy without her knowledge.