WRONG-SITE SURGERY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("wrong-site surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

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