aseptic surgery

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Surgery performed under sterilized conditions to prevent the introduction of infectious microorganisms.

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When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.
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He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
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“As far as we were aware, and as far as the surgeon was aware, the surgery was a go,” Shaheen sighs.
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Internet chatter rose to a deafening roar as speculation began about what—plastic surgery?
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As I sign the forms to be admitted to have surgery the next day, I ask my husband the date.
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Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
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He went at his job with a handy adroitness which was almost scientific, it was so much like surgery, like dissection.
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I have no doubt that unpretending woman knows more about surgery than all the men doctors in New York city.
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Moreover, as Dr. Lorien had stated, and as Leonard had found by actual experience, he was skilled in medicine and surgery.
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Medicine and surgery—well, there's a huge program of compulsory sterilization, and another one of eugenic marriage-control.
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