spare-part surgery

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surgical replacement of defective or damaged organs by transplant or insertion of artificial devices

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Words nearby spare-part surgery

sparaxis, spar buoy, spar deck, spare, spare part, spare-part surgery, sparerib, spareribs, spare the rod and spoil the child, spare time, spare tire

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How to use spare-part surgery in a sentence

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For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.
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The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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On the upper part of the stem the whorls are very close together, but they are more widely separated at the lower portion.
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The countries about the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters.
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To see a part of my scheme, from which I had hoped so much, go wrong before my eyes is maddening!
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Thanks to Berthier's admirable system, Bonaparte was kept in touch with every part of his command.
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