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electrosurgery

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e·lec·tro·sur·ger·y  (-lktr-sûrj-r)
n.
The surgical use of high-frequency electric current for cutting or destroying tissue, as in cauterization.

e·lectro·surgi·cal (-j-kl) adj.
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Noun1.electrosurgery - surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)
surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"

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Scalpel dissection is associated with a longer period of postoperative pain and a more difficult recovery than is conventional electrosurgery.
The Company's products serve the clinical areas of arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, cardiac monitoring disposables, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies.
Silverglide Surgical Technologies offers SILVERGlide[R] nonstick bipolar electrosurgical forceps, which virtually eliminate the tissue sticking and tissue buildup normally associated with coagulation during electrosurgery.
 
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