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MINOR SURGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does minor surgery mean?
• MINOR SURGERY (noun)
The noun MINOR SURGERY has 1 sense:
1. any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance
Familiarity information: MINOR SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("minor surgery" 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)
Antonym:
major surgery (any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance)
Context examples
Getting a pacemaker or ICD requires minor surgery.
(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)
Traditionally, minor surgery to draw marrow from the hipbones followed by collection of the stems cells from the donated marrow.
(Bone Marrow Donation, NCI Thesaurus)
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