#surgical_operation__operation__surgery__surgical_procedure__surgical_process  a therapeutic procedure with instruments 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"
  supertype:  #therapy  (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.); "the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury"; "he tried every treatment the doctors suggested"; "heat therapy gave the best relief"
  subtype:  #cutting_out  #amputation  #angioplasty  #arthroplasty  #arthroscopy  #autoplasty  #brain_surgery  #castration  #cauterization  #chemosurgery  #craniotomy  #cryosurgery  #curettage  #debridement  #decortication  #dilation_and_curettage  #electrosurgery  #enterostomy  #enucleation  #evisceration  #exenteration  #fenestration  #gastrectomy  #gastroenterostomy  #gastrostomy  #heart_surgery  #hemorrhoidectomy  #hysterotomy  #iridectomy  #iridotomy  #intestinal_bypass  #jejunostomy {#major_surgery #minor_surgery}  #microsurgery  #myotomy  #myringectomy  #myringoplasty  #myringotomy  #neurosurgery  #nose_job  #orchiopexy  #osteotomy  #ostomy  #phalloplasty  #phlebectomy  #photocoagulation  #plastic_surgery  #polypectomy  #resection  #rhinotomy  #rhizotomy  #Shirodkar's_operation  #sterilisation  #strabotomy  #taxis  #tracheostomy  #organ_transplant  #trephination  #tympanoplasty  #uranoplasty  #vasovasostomy  #vivisection
  part:  #hemostasis__haemostasis__haemostasi__hemostasia__haemostasia  surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)
  part:  #surgical_incision__incision__section  the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
  part:  #suturing  surgical joining of two surfaces

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