Usually means: Surgical cutting using electrical currents.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word electrosurgery:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. electrosurgery: Merriam-Webster
  2. electrosurgery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. electrosurgery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. electrosurgery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. electrosurgery: Vocabulary.com
  6. electrosurgery: Wiktionary
  7. electrosurgery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. electrosurgery: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. electrosurgery: Dictionary.com
  10. Electrosurgery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. electrosurgery: Rhymezone
  12. electrosurgery: FreeDictionary.org
  13. electrosurgery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. electrosurgery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. electrosurgery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. electrosurgery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Electrosurgery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. electrosurgery: Medical dictionary
  7. Electrosurgery: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (electrosurgery)

▸ noun:  (surgery) the application of high-frequency electric current to tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate it

Similar:
electrocoagulation, electrocoagulator, electrocautery, electrodesiccation, electroexcision, electroablation, electrocauterizer, electrohemostasis, electrothermy, electrofulguration, more...

Opposite:
nonelectric surgery, traditional surgery, manual surgery

Types:
monopolar, bipolar, ultrasound, cryosurgery, laser, more...

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Similar:
electrocoagulation, electrocoagulator, electrocautery, electrodesiccation, electroexcision, electroablation, electrocauterizer, electrohemostasis, electrothermy, electrofulguration, more...

Opposite:
nonelectric surgery, traditional surgery, manual surgery

Types:
monopolar, bipolar, ultrasound, cryosurgery, laser, more...



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