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keyhole surgery

noun

  1. surgery carried out through a very small incision

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“Writing online in 2025 feels like performing keyhole surgery while people scream ‘ROBOT!

From Slate

Mr Tibbot said carrying out keyhole surgery on Stacey "would have been almost impossible, or would have taken the whole day of operating".

From BBC

But her pregnancy was too far advanced to allow surgeons to perform standard keyhole surgery.

From BBC

He had four tiny scars in his eye where healthy copies of the gene were injected into the retina at the back of the eye through keyhole surgery.

From BBC

A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery.

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