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cryosurgery

cryosurgery

7.2
A medical treatment that uses very cold liquid to destroy unwanted skin or body tissue
  • noun
  • /ˈkraɪoʊˌsɜrʤəri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : criocirugía
  • These have included microcauterization, dilation, dilation with local and systemic corticosteroids, cryosurgery, and serial electrosurgical resection.

Then your surgeon will use either a laser or some sort of cryosurgery to again, scar and tack down that retina into place.

Examples

  • Electrocoagulation was advocated by Figi in 1947, and cryosurgery was popularized in 1969 by Goldwyn and Rosoff.

    Academic text (1998)
  • They include cold-knife excision, cryosurgery, marsupialization, laser excision, and intralesional injection of OK-432.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The advice of these experts is don't do the knife; go with cryosurgery.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Cryosurgery is still unpredictable because of the unreliability of the frozen state.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Then your surgeon will use either a laser or some sort of cryosurgery to again, scar and tack down that retina into place.

  • Cryosurgery is a procedure that uses extreme cold to destroy cryosurgery abnormal tissue in the body.

  • Doctors often recommend cryosurgery to treat skin lesions that do not respond to other treatments.

  • The use of cryosurgery has increased in recent years for removing precancerous lesions safely.

Synonyms

cryotherapy
vscryosurgery
  • Specialized
4.6

A medical treatment that uses extreme cold to remove warts and other skin growths

is a surgical procedure often using liquid nitrogen to destroy tissue
cryocautery
vscryosurgery
  • Specialized
9.9

A medical treatment that uses extreme cold to destroy skin growths like warts

is a surgical procedure often using liquid nitrogen rather than general treatment

How Aggressive

cutting out
  • Specialized
13 6.9
cryosurgery
  • Specialized
7.2
cryotherapy
  • Specialized
4.6
topical
  • Specialized
11 4.1

Surface Forms

cryosurgery singular
cryosurgeries plural

Morphology

cryosurgery = surgery (semi-transparent) = cryo + surgery

Formally built from the combining form 'cryo-' (cold) + 'surgery', so the structural meaning 'surgery using extreme cold' is recoverable, but 'cryo-' is a technical combining form unfamiliar to average B1 learners.

Etymology

Cryosurgery comes from the Greek root cryo- meaning 'cold' and the word surgery meaning 'an operation'. Think of it as a 'cold operation' where doctors freeze and destroy unwanted tissue, which is why the word describes this medical procedure today.