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Example sentences for "surgery"

Lexicographically close words:
surfmen; surge; surged; surgeon; surgeons; surges; surgical; surgically; surging; surgit
  1. VI At that moment Gian Galeazzo was being bled: according to the rules of surgery the operation was performed by candle-light, and with closed shutters.

  2. Leonardo hoped that the mountain air, with quiet and rest, might accomplish more for him than the drugs and experimental surgery of ignorant physicians.

  3. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

  4. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound.

  5. In 1615, when thirty-seven years of age, Harvey was chosen to deliver the lectures on surgery and anatomy to the College of Physicians, and it is possible that at this time he gave an exposition of his views on the circulation.

  6. Surgery holds out the greatest hope in this dread disease.

  7. Surgeon Extraordinary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians; Consulting Surgeon to University College Hospital, London; Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery to University College, London, etc.

  8. Improved methods of surgery have rendered early operation for cancer of the stomach a hopeful measure, and if cure does not result, the life will be prolonged and much suffering saved.

  9. By the side of the wounded man stood the household physician, a venerable-looking slave, who had acquired such knowledge of medicine and surgery as sufficed for the treatment of the commoner ailments and accidents.

  10. The Saxon's wounds were dressed and bound up by the priest, who united some knowledge of medicine and surgery to his other accomplishments, and was indeed scarcely less well qualified for the cure of bodies than of souls.

  11. Correction of the deformity of the arches often renders nasal surgery unnecessary.

  12. In some cases it is criminal, as for instance to refuse surgery for cancer, or outdoor living for tuberculosis.

  13. Early diagnosis plus surgery is the only hope for a cancerous person.

  14. Surgery is necessary for some tumors that can be reached.

  15. It was a funny glad-to-see-him I felt as I came into the surgery where he was standing over by the window looking out at my garden in its twilight glow.

  16. John's surgery to tell him about it; but I ought not to have been agitated enough to let him take the letter right out of my hand and read it.

  17. I ran past the surgery door and found him in his cot almost asleep, and we had a bear reunion in the wicker chair by the window that made us both breathless.

  18. Not only did the resources of surgery and medicine fail most miserably, but their gifted prophets were unable to foretell the end.

  19. Nevertheless, he took him back to the surgery and made him swallow some sal volatile in spite of protest.

  20. He infinitely preferred smoking a silent pipe in Ralston's company or messing about with him in his little surgery as he was sometimes permitted to do.

  21. Chairs of botany, pharmacy, surgery were instituted and endowed, and in 1650 the garden was thrown open to the public.

  22. The amphitheatre of the School of Surgery at No.

  23. Where it was necessary periodic surgery had trimmed the flesh away.

  24. When this was peeled off and the exposed surface was pressed against the body, only surgery could remove it.

  25. Don't touch the surgery robe unless you want your pretty face to peel off when you're not looking.

  26. Medicine and surgery were partly to blame.

  27. Mondino was succeeded in the chair of Surgery at Bologna by his pupil, the Lombard Bertuccio, who died in the Black Death of 1347.

  28. Bertuccio, for example, who succeeded Mondino as professor of Surgery at Bologna, was accustomed, as we learn from his pupil Guy de Chauliac, to give short systematic anatomical demonstrations on a fixed and rigid method.

  29. Bertuccio (professor of surgery at Bologna), anatomical demonstrations by, 82, 94.

  30. Bigelow was appointed to the chair of surgery left vacant by the resignation of Doctor George Hayward, and in 1854, Doctor Walter Channing was succeeded by Doctor David Humphreys Storer.

  31. The only treatment indicated in this case was the best of surgery for the injury, and some easing doses for a short while at first, to relieve pain.

  32. John Hunter used to remark that the art of surgery would not advance until professional men had the courage to publish their failures as well as their successes.

  33. His brother William, a surgeon in Mincing Lane, gave gratuitous advice to the poor, and amongst the numerous applicants for relief at his surgery was a poor African named Jonathan Strong.

  34. And she continued: "I called in at the surgery just now.

  35. To-night he was not less prompt than usual; and having performed this, his last daily office, and turned down the surgery gas, he reported the fact and took his departure.

  36. And circumstances justified my confidence; for the clock yet stood at two minutes to seven when a premonitory tap at the surgery door heralded her arrival.

  37. But on the fourth day, just as the evening consultations were beginning and the surgery was filled with waiting patients, Polton appeared with a note, which he insisted, to the indignation of Adolphus, on delivering into my own hands.

  38. Pettigrew, Superstitions Connected with the History and Practice of Surgery and Medicine, pp.

  39. In addition to this, surgery was forbidden because the Church of Rome adopted the maxim that "the church abhors the shedding of blood.

  40. Surgery was considered dishonorable until the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries.

  41. Monks were prohibited the practice of surgery in 1248, and by subsequent councils, and all dissections were considered sacrilege.

  42. What we see in connection with dissection and surgery and medicine was repeated at a later date with inoculation, vaccination, and anæsthetics.

  43. For instance, Franciscus de Paula succored an anchylosed joint by the energetic surgery of three dried figs which he gave the suffering patient to eat.

  44. In 1215, Innocent III fulminated an anathema against surgery and any priest practising it.

  45. John Browne, surgeon in ordinary to his majesty and to St. Thomas's Hospital, and author of many learned works on surgery and anatomy, published accounts of sixty cures due to this monarch.

  46. Arab surgery is of the crudest description.

  47. But though there is much "physicking" in Mosul, but little surgery is done, and that gives the opportunity for the European doctor to step in.

  48. He studied medicine and surgery at Belfast, Dublin and Paris, and graduated in arts, medicine and surgery at the Queen's University of Ireland, in which he afterwards became an examiner in surgery.

  49. In the field of surgery the X-ray is in daily use, and radium and radioactivity may yet be great aids to medicine.

  50. By ignorance of anatomy their practice of surgery was very imperfect.

  51. There was no money to assist him to a partnership, and surgery for the moment seemed out of the question.

  52. A year later Crabbe installed a deputy in the surgery and paid his first visit to London.

  53. In an address On the Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery to the end of the Sixteenth Century, delivered at the Congress of Arts and Sciences at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, he (Prof.

  54. As to the suture of divided nerves, it would ordinarily and as a matter of course be claimed by most modern historians of surgery and by practically all surgeons, as an affair entirely of the last half century.

  55. It tells the story of medieval medical education with higher standards than ours, of medieval surgery with anaesthesia and antisepsis, with beautiful hospitals and fine nursing, and of medieval dentistry with gold fillings and bridgework.

  56. Clerk (cleric) as he was, Lanfranc nevertheless saw but the more clearly the danger of separating surgery from medicine.

  57. The danger of the separation of surgery from medicine.

  58. William fully recognised that surgery cannot be learned from books only.

  59. His Surgery contains many case histories, for he rightly opined that good notes of cases are the soundest foundation of good practice; and in this opinion and method Lanfranc followed him.

  60. William of Salicet's surgery was republished by Pifteau at Toulouse in 1898.

  61. It is not so surprising, then, to find that the great French surgeon was far ahead of his generation in other matters, or that he should even have realized the danger of separating surgery from medicine.

  62. Perhaps the most surprising thing is the simple statement that Salicet recognized that surgery cannot be learned from books alone.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surgery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amputation; cleavage; clinic; cutting; dichotomy; dispensary; electrolysis; emergency; excision; fission; infirmary; isolation; laboratory; laceration; medicine; mutilation; nursery; pharmacy; resection; ripping; scission; section; severance; slashing; splitting; surgery; therapy; ward