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  • noun surgery The surgical removal of a bunion

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Examples

  • You should see what the minority doctors did to my foot on a simple bunionectomy at the VA Im a cripple!

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Tips for Very Simple Machine-Making for 6-Year-Olds? 2009

  • Hopefully, Brian Williams’ bunionectomy and Katie Couric’s abscess removal will go just as smoothly should they occur, and they will be just as gay as Anderson Cooper, if not gayer.

    Pamela Anderson’s Stupid Marriage Officially Never Existed 2008

  • The good news about a bunionectomy is that once the bunion is corrected properly, it most likely will never come back again.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • The good news about a bunionectomy is that once the bunion is corrected properly, it most likely will never come back again.

    You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

  • Lucky for him, the Vietnam veteran cook slipped him large helpings after he was banned from the cafeteria for performing a self-bunionectomy during dinner one summer night.

    Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006

  • Various surgical models (hemorrhoidectomy, herniorrhaphy, bunionectomy or total knee arthroplasty) and routes of administration (wound infiltration, subcutaneous, epidural or nerve block) were studied.

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  • Required for FDA New Drug Application (NDA) submission, this combination rule study - comparing the efficacy and safety profiles of MoxDuo®IR against component doses of morphine and oxycodone alone - demonstrated that MoxDuo®IR reduces moderate to severe pain following bunionectomy surgery significantly better than its individual components.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2010

  • The study was conducted as a double-blind, randomised comparison of three fixed-dose treatment groups experiencing moderate to severe pain following bunionectomy surgery.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2010

  • But while a bunionectomy involves cutting and repositioning bone, and upwards of two months of recovery on crutches, the new Mini TightRope option relies on a minimally invasive toe-binding process that ultimately promises to reduce pain and allow for crutch-free walking while cutting recovery time by more than half.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • "With bunionectomy surgery, the most severe pain occurs within the first 24 hours and, accordingly, that's where we observed the greatest benefit of MoxDuo®IR relative to its components in terms of pain relief," added Holaday.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2010

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