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- noun Plural form of
laparotomy .
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Examples
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By this time, Dr. Berlin had become respected for her surgical expertise in performing laparotomies.
Fanny Berlin. 2009
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Are they concerned with false negative laparotomies and adverse peer review?
Was it Defensive Medicine or a Necessary Test? aka TBTAM 2007
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The difficulties of the former are quickly mastered by any student of normal sense, but even the most casual of laparotomies calls for a man of special skill and address.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 1. Grammarians and Their Ways Henry Louis 1921
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Mini-laparotomies require a shorter recovery time than other tubal ligation methods and require only a regional anesthetic.
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Indeed, during my residency I can only recall doing one or two staging laparotomies.
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"Since I came here I've seen you do laparotomies, enterotomies, pyometras.
Every living thing Herriot, James 1992
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