Surgeons can remove tissue {surgery}|. Surgery {cryo-surgery} can involve freezing tissues.
Microphones {artificial cochlea} can send signals straight to auditory nerve.
skin removal {debridement}|.
dead-tissue removal {necropsy}|.
tissue removal {resection}|.
Surgery {stereotaxic surgery}| can use brain coordinates.
Sewing can bind two tissue pieces together {suture}|.
appendix removal {appendectomy}|.
Scraping uterus wall, under anesthesia, can remove embryo {dilatation and curettage}| (D & C).
cerebral-hemisphere, white-matter, and basal-ganglia removal {hemispherectomy} {hemicerebrectomy}.
Laser vision correction or refractive surgery {laser surgery for eye} can be laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) or photo refractive keratotomy (PRK).
Removing small frontal-lobe regions {leucotomy} can cure depression.
brain-lobe removal {lobotomy}.
breast removal {mastectomy}|.
Plastic surgery {rhinoplasty}| can be on nose.
tonsil removal {tonsillectomy}|.
Surgical procedures {tracheotomy}| can cut through neck and into trachea, to allow breathing.
Surgical procedures {trephining} can make skull holes.
Cutting and tying fallopian tubes {tubal ligation}| prevents eggs from entering uterus.
Cutting and tying vas deferens {vasectomy}| prevents sperm from leaving testis.
Thin flexible tubes {catheter}| can lie in vessels to keep them open.
Surgical instruments {forceps}| can grasp and hold or pull.
Threads or wires {ligature, medicine}| can tie blood vessels.
Surgical tools {retractor}| can pull back skin or tissue to expose area in which to operate.
Surgical instruments {trocar} can hold incisions open for endoscopic surgery.
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