- cryosurgical
- adjective see cryosurgery
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cryosurgical
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cryosurgical — See cryosurgeon. * * * … Universalium
cryosurgical — adjective Of or pertaining to cryosurgery … Wiktionary
cryosurgical — adj. of or pertaining to cryosurgery (use of very low temperatures to destroy tissue) … English contemporary dictionary
cryosurgical — cryo·surgical … English syllables
cryosurgical — adjective see cryosurgery … Useful english dictionary
cryosurgery — cryosurgical, adj. /kruy oh serr jeuh ree/, n. the use of extreme cold to destroy tissue for therapeutic purposes. [1960 65; CRYO + SURGERY] * * * therapeutic technique in which localized freezing is used to remove or destroy diseased… … Universalium
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Gary Onik — is the inventor of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver. Onik treated the first liver patients with cryosurgery in 1986 and the first patient with ultrasound guided prostate cryosurgery in 1990, and has developed… … Wikipedia
cryosurgery — noun Date: 1962 surgery in which usually diseased or abnormal tissue (as of a tumor or wart) is destroyed or removed by freezing (as by liquid nitrogen) • cryosurgeon noun • cryosurgical adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
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