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Definition of Electrosurgery
1. Noun. Surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery).
Definition of Electrosurgery
1. Noun. (surgery) the application of high-frequency electric current to tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate it ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Electrosurgery
1. [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Electrosurgery
1. Division of tissues by a high-frequency current applied locally with a metal instrument or needle. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrosurgery
Literary usage of Electrosurgery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who in America by Albert Nelson Marquis (1899)
"Author of original contributions to neuropathology, electrotherapy and electrosurgery,
published in America and Europe, among others: On American ..."
2. Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy: Principles and Techniques by Camran Nezhat (2000)
"The luminal part of the stump is seared with either the laser or electrosurgery,
Betadine is applied, and the tissue is irrigated copiously with lactated ..."
3. A Light in the Midst of Darkness by Erik Loebl (2007)
"... com/PE-Craniotomy. htm) Electrocautery- This does not refer to electrosurgery.
The current flows in one direction ..."
4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"MOCK, HE: electrosurgery in thyroidectomy, Jour. Am. Med. ... KRUSEN, FH and
SCHULHOF, MG: electrosurgery, in The Cyclopedia of Medicine, ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity by George Miller Beard, Alphonso David Rockwell (1881)
"of the right arm, resulting from injury, by electric sparks. The cine was brought
about in two or three months, and may perhaps be regarded as the first ..."
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