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Surgery:

A branch of invasive medicine that treats disease or injury by operative procedures involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease as the goal in a living body. Surgery comes from the Greek word cheirourgia - "hand work." The medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by an operative manual and instrumental treatment. Surgeons are medical practitioners who specialize in surgery. Surgery is almost as old as Herbal Medicine, which is the oldest form of medicine. Evidence of trephination are some of the earliest examples of surgery and Ayurvedic doctors being skilled in cataract removal more than a thousand years before western doctors.

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