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a medical professional who performs operations that involve cutting into someone's body in order to repair or remove damaged or diseased parts
a brain surgeon She worked as a surgeon for twenty years.
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Keke Palmer and Stephanie Hsu give voice to space-alien surgeons and best buds who work at the titular intergalactic facility, operating on all manner of bizarre life forms.
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Judy Berman, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Spine surgeons say too many Florida doctors are operating without expertise and outcomes are predictably poor, leaving patients in as much pain or more.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
The company’s products are designed to enhance efficiency and safety, from assisting surgeons in complex medical procedures to optimizing warehouse operations with intelligent automation.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2024
From rapped numbers to a montage of Rita recruiting potential surgeons for her employer’s marathon of gender-affirming procedures, the choreographer tried various approaches to punctuating the film’s dialogue with dance.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
These narratives were intended to give patients an idea of what to expect after mastectomy, as well as provide a guide for surgeons to discuss breast sensation with patients.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2024
The main issue being some of my veins had collapsed where the wires were meant to go… But the hospital surgeons, doctors and nurses at the NHS have been incredible.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
The technology is built into a device that can identify residual brain tumor in as little as 10 seconds, helping surgeons remove more cancer and potentially save lives.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
To this day, surgeons performing amputations too often have little sense of what happens to a patient in the years after recovery.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Judy Berman, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
Spine surgeons say too many Florida doctors are operating without expertise and outcomes are predictably poor, leaving patients in as much pain or more.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
The company’s products are designed to enhance efficiency and safety, from assisting surgeons in complex medical procedures to optimizing warehouse operations with intelligent automation.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2024
From rapped numbers to a montage of Rita recruiting potential surgeons for her employer’s marathon of gender-affirming procedures, the choreographer tried various approaches to punctuating the film’s dialogue with dance.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
These narratives were intended to give patients an idea of what to expect after mastectomy, as well as provide a guide for surgeons to discuss breast sensation with patients.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2024
The main issue being some of my veins had collapsed where the wires were meant to go… But the hospital surgeons, doctors and nurses at the NHS have been incredible.
—Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
The technology is built into a device that can identify residual brain tumor in as little as 10 seconds, helping surgeons remove more cancer and potentially save lives.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
To this day, surgeons performing amputations too often have little sense of what happens to a patient in the years after recovery.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Surgeons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surgeons. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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