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Definition of Major surgery
1. Noun. Any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance.
Antonyms: Minor Surgery
Medical Definition of Major surgery
1. See: major operation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Major Surgery
Literary usage of Major surgery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Illinois Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women (1905)
"major surgery.—Dr. BLAKE will give a course in major surgery in the wards and
operating-rooms of the Boston City Hospital. It will consist of ward visits, ..."
2. A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics: With Special by John Vietch Shoemaker (1906)
"... anaesthesia is of advantage in selected cases, yet the danger attending its
use must necessarily restrict its general employment in major surgery. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"This work is undertaken by those not qualified to do major surgery, ... The factors
tending to bring about the undertaking of major surgery by those who are ..."
4. Industrial Medicine and Surgery by Harry Edgar Mock (1919)
"Furthermore, it leads to the thought that unless a doctor is qualified to do
major surgery he should not attempt to handle a major surgical case, ..."
5. Painless Childbirth: A General Survey of All Painless Methods, with Special by Marguerite Tracy, Mary Brown Sumner Boyd (1915)
"Scopolamin-morphin fell as quickly out of favour as it had come in; its record
in major surgery was recalled and another cross put down against the drug. ..."
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