Example Sentences
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For a patient who has just had a tumor surgically removed, the critical question is whether every cancer cell is gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
"However, the damage caused by HIF1 in tendon tissue can accumulate and become irreversible over time. Physiotherapy then no longer helps, and the only treatment at this moment is to surgically remove the diseased tendon."
From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026
Usually doctors try to find out more about someone's cancer by surgically extracting cells directly from a tumour in the body.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Vonn and her surgically repaired right knee had come out of retirement specifically for one last shot at Olympic glory in Cortina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026
As a young man he’d had half his stomach surgically removed, and now after dinner always drank a Pepsi-Cola to help digest his meal.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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