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Laparoscopic(medicine)
Laparoscopic surgery(health)
laparoscopic knot(medicine)
laparoscopic cannula(medicine)
laparoscopic cholangiogram(medicine)
laparoscopic cholecystectomy(medicine)
Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy(health)
laparoscopic surgery(medicine)
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy(health)

laparoscopic cholecystectomy (medicine) and Immersion (medicine)


laparoscopic cholecystectomy (medicine)


laparoscopic cholecystectomy
<procedure, surgery> Surgery to remove a diseased gallbladder through a laparoscope. A fibreoptic scope is inserted through a small incision by the navel. Instruments are inserted through two more smaller incisions. The gallbladder is localised and removed through the laparoscope. The patient is usually Home within 24 hours after surgery.

Symptoms are improved in over 90% of patients.


Immersion (medicine)


immersion


1. The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

2. Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

3. The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. "Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life." (Atterbury)

4. <astronomy> The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; opposed to emersion. Immersion lens, a microscopic objective of short focal distance designed to work with a drop of liquid, as oil, between the front lens and the slide, so that this lens is practically immersed.

Origin: L. Immersio; cf. F. Immersion.

Source: Websters Dictionary