laparoscopically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From laparoscopic + -ally.
Adverb
[edit]laparoscopically (not comparable)
- By means of laparoscopy.
- 2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times[1]:
- The two flat-screen monitors worked perfectly, on the other hand, affording a full-color, high-definition view of the first patient’s gallbladder, which Dr. Gawande and a surgical resident, Siva Raja, proceeded to remove laparoscopically, after first inserting a fiber-optic camera through a tiny incision in the patient’s abdomen.
- 2011, Paul H. Lange, Christine Adamec, Prostate Cancer For Dummies:
- Doctors can perform prostatectomies in one of three different ways: perineally, retropubically, or laparoscopically.