life-saving surgery

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meaningsoflife-savingandsurgery

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life-saving
adjective
uk
/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/us
/ˈlaɪfˌseɪ.vɪŋ/
done to prevent someone ...
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surgery
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.dʒər.i/us
/ˈsɝː.dʒər.i/
the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the ...
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(Definition oflife-savingandsurgeryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Part of the inevitability of cardiac surgery, or anylife-savingsurgery, is the risk of survival.
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However, people should not have to pay with their life savings forlife-savingsurgery.
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I do not believe that anybody thinks that doctors engaged on seriouslife-savingsurgerywill make that distinction.
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They did excellent work in stabilising many of the injured, in performing emergencylife-savingsurgery, and in making people ready for transfer to other acute hospitals.
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It's treated intensely, as though it werelife-savingsurgery, but with the elements and techniques explained to the reader, providing a mini-course in movie makeup.
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It aims to provide every infant and child with a damaged heart an equal opportunity to receivelife-savingsurgery.
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The parents or guardians of the students are required to submit a written permission for emergencylife-savingsurgery.
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His career was ended in 2000 after taking a slapshot to the throat, an injury that requiredlife-savingsurgerymoments after the incident.
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He underwent successfullife-savingsurgery, which left his future rugby playing career in doubt.
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Appendicitis was generally not treated operatively and carried a high mortality rate, but developments in anaesthesia and antisepsis in the preceding 50 years madelife-savingsurgerypossible.
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The surgical, evacuation, or field hospitals would remain many miles in the rear, and the divisional clearing stations were never intended to provide emergencylife-savingsurgery.
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Baker was involved in a serious car crash, which meant that he neededlife-savingsurgeryand spent over a month on a drip feed.
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Lachlan is diagnosed with a brain tumour and has to havelife-savingsurgery.
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Moore suffered from serious heart problems in his later years and twice underwentlife-savingsurgeryfor blocked arteries.
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The advent of anesthesia allowed more complicated andlife-savingsurgeryto be completed, decreased the physiologic stress of the surgery, but added an element of risk.
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