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Many surgical procedure names can be broken into parts to indicate the meaning. For example, in gastrectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Gastro-" means stomach. Thus, gastrectomy refers to the surgical removal of the stomach (or sections thereof).
Hemicorporectomy is the surgical amputation of the entire body below the waist, including the legs, genitalia, urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum. Hemilaminectomy is the surgical trimming or partial removal of the lamina portion of a spinal vertebra. Hemipelvectomy is the surgical removal of half of the pelvis and one of the legs ...
Eponymous surgical procedures are generally named after the surgeon or surgeons who performed or reported them first. In some instances they are named after the surgeon who popularised them or refined existing procedures, and occasionally are named after the patient who first underwent the procedure.
Anesthesiology – practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery. Alternative medicine; is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine. Cardiology – branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the blood vessels.
Brunelli procedure; Cotrel–Dubousset instrumentation; Cunningham Shoulder Reduction; Darrach's procedure; Darrah procedure; Evans technique; Girdlestone's Procedure; Keller procedure; Kocher manoeuvre; Krukenberg procedure; Latarjet procedure; Mumford procedure; Ponseti method; Swanson's Arthroplasty; Tommy John surgery; Weil's Osteotomy ...
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However, because of the nature of the history of medicine, new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery. List of eponymous diseases; List of eponymous fractures; List of eponymous medical devices; List of eponymous medical signs; List of eponymous medical treatments; List of eponymous ...
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