ELECTROSURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrosurgery mean? 

• ELECTROSURGERY (noun)
  The noun ELECTROSURGERY has 1 sense:

1. surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)

  Familiarity information: ELECTROSURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTROSURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("electrosurgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

 Context examples 

Fulguration is a type of electrosurgery.

(Fulguration, NCI Dictionary)

Examples of electrosurgery are electrodesiccation and fulguration.

(Electrosurgery, NCI Dictionary)

Electrofulguration is a type of electrosurgery.

(Electrofulguration, NCI Dictionary)

Electrocoagulation is a type of electrosurgery.

(Electrocoagulation, NCI Dictionary)

Electrocautery is a type of electrosurgery.

(Electrocautery, NCI Dictionary)

Electrosurgery may be used to treat basal cell skin cancer or other types of skin problems, such as actinic keratoses, warts, and moles.

(Electrosurgery, NCI Dictionary)