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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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For example, the charity said, if endometriosis was discovered during keyhole surgery the fact it had been found may not be formally recorded.

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Ms Brewster said that people can wait up to eight years for a diagnosis as it required a laparoscopy, a keyhole surgery procedure, to confirm the condition.

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

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

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

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