CRYOSURGERY


Meaning of CRYOSURGERY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌkrī-ō-ˈsərj-rē, -ˈsər-jə- ]

noun

Date: 1962

: surgery in which usually diseased or abnormal tissue (as of a tumor or wart) is destroyed or removed by freezing (as by liquid nitrogen)

• cryo·sur·geon -ˈsər-jən noun

• cryo·sur·gi·cal -ji-kəl adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.