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Surgery
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
     2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.



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KIM GARFIELD, 72, the Hollywood publicist and former Advocate contributor, of complications from major surgery, in Los Angeles, October 31.
``He does so many things well that it's not major surgery here,'' Connors said.
In terms of hygiene, while recovering from major surgery and unable to ambulate, my mother was given a pan overnight.
 
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