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WRONG-SITE SURGERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wrong-site surgery mean?
• WRONG-SITE SURGERY (noun)
The noun WRONG-SITE SURGERY has 1 sense:
1. a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body
Familiarity information: WRONG-SITE SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("wrong-site surgery" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
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