Antisurgical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing surgery.

    "Alternative healers also espoused a decidedly antisurgical bias, and many promised cures that avoided the knife."

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"Alternative healers also espoused a decidedly antisurgical bias, and many promised cures that avoided the knife."

Etymology

From anti- + surgical.

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