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controlled violence with a license, where cutting someone open counts as helping.
means The branch of medicine that treats injury, disease, or deformity by physically operating on the body, typically by cutting into it.
from From Greek 'kheirourgia' — literally 'handwork,' from 'kheir' (hand) and 'ergon' (work). The same 'ergon' lurks in 'energy' and 'ergonomics.' It traveled through Latin 'chirurgia' into Old French 'cirurgie,' getting worn smoother at every stop until English filed it down to 'surgery.' So at its root the word is humble and honest: a job done by hand.
- ancient roots
- Skull holes drilled 7,000 years ago often healed and survived.
- no anesthesia
- Surgeons once raced the clock to limit screaming patients.
- speed record
- Robert Liston amputated a leg in 28 seconds.
- infamous case
- One operation killed three people: patient, assistant, spectator.
- naming quirk
- Surgeon comes from Greek for hand and work.
separation of conjoined twins — lakshmi tatma, 2007, india: 27-hour surgery to separate craniopagus twins
first heart transplant — christiaan barnard, december 3 1967, cape town: louis washkansky received donor heart