Surgery
Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. "hand work") is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. Surgeons are medical practitioners who specialize in surgery.
Noted surgeons
: For a more complete list, see List of surgeons.
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- Christiaan Barnard (cardiac surgery, first heart transplantation)
- Walter Freeman (lobotomy)
- Sir Victor Horsley (neurosurgery)
- Lars Leksell (neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery)
- Joseph Lister (discoverer of surgical sepsis, Listerine named in his honour)
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | History of surgery |
| ► | Development of modern surgery |
| ► | Diseases that can be treated by surgery |
| ► | Common surgical procedures |
| ► | Noted surgeons |
| ► | See also (surgeries) |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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