single-incision laparoscopic surgery

English

Noun

single-incision laparoscopic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural single-incision laparoscopic surgeries)

  1. (medicine, surgery) A laparoscopy technique where only a single incision of between 1½ to 5 centimetres is made, mostly through the umbilicus.

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