keyhole surgery

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noun

surgery carried out through a very small incision

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Example sentences from the Web for keyhole surgery

When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He was also a charismatic, telegenic speaker with a face improved by plastic surgery several years earlier.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“As far as we were aware, and as far as the surgeon was aware, the surgery was a go,” Shaheen sighs.
The Insurance Company Promised a Gender Reassignment. Then They Made a Mistake.|James Joiner|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
He looked at it through a keyhole, as it were—the extent was large yet detailed, the picture distant yet very clearly focussed.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Kneeling down, he peered into the keyhole, holding the electric torch close beside his face and chewing industriously.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
And all the while the real "me" is snugly lying here in the green box, peeping through the keyhole, on the watch for the postman.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
Jehosophat wished he were as small as Hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson

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