electrosurgery love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The surgical use of high-frequency electric current for cutting or destroying tissue, as in cauterization.

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  • noun surgery the application of high-frequency electric current to tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate it

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  • noun surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)

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electro- +‎ surgery

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