exploratory surgery

collocation in English

meaningsofexploratoryandsurgery

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withsurgery.
exploratory
adjective
uk
/ekˈsplɒr.ə.tər.i/us
/ekˈsplɑː.rə.tɔːr.i/
done in order to discover more ...
See more atexploratory
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 ...
See more atsurgery

(Definition ofexploratoryandsurgeryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexploratory surgery

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Exploratorysurgeryrevealed a growing brain tumor.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
To mix my metaphors, one does not haveexploratorysurgerywhile feeling perfectly well.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
In hospital in 1913 forexploratorysurgery, she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and died on the operating table.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
In 1937, anexploratorysurgeryrevealed that he suffered from an advanced case of prostate cancer, untreatable and inoperable.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Anexploratorysurgerywas required to determine whether he was suffering from a hemorrhage or a tumor.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Duringexploratorysurgery, foreign debris may be removed with microsurgical tools by inspection under the operating room microscope.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Exploratorysurgeryindicated a frayed labrum and a split in the right shoulder capsule, both requiring months of rehab following surgical repair.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Following his victory, he was accused of having undergone a cosmetic procedure, which supposedly turned out to be anexploratorysurgeryfor tonsillitis.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Since median incisions in the abdomen are frequent for abdominalexploratorysurgery, ventral incisional hernias are often also classified as ventral hernias due to their location.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Other misdiagnoses have resulted in unnecessaryexploratorysurgeryfor patients with abdominal swelling and other hereditary angioedema patients report that their abdominal pain was wrongly diagnosed as psychosomatic.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Not only have these diagnostic techniques eliminated the need for muchexploratorysurgery, they have provided physicians with diagnostic capabilities that would otherwise have been impossible.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Afterexploratorysurgerywas completed, it was discovered that a blood clot had blocked a vein supplying blood to his intestines, which had become a mass of dead tissue.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
He has described how his body was discovered to be different or incomplete in his teens; invasiveexploratorysurgerywas followed by reconstructive surgeries over a period of six years.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofexploratory
Go to the definition ofsurgery
See other collocations withsurgery