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A medical operation in which a doctor cuts open a person's body for the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities: Surgery is the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions which require or are amenable to operative procedures done by one or more surgeons.
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Computerized Axial Tomography, CAT, or Computed Tomography, CT Terms +
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