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Surgery peeks through a keyhole instead of kicking down the door.
means A surgical technique where a thin lighted scope and tiny instruments are inserted through small incisions to examine or operate inside the abdomen, instead of cutting it wide open.
from Built from Greek parts: 'lapara,' meaning the soft part of the body between the ribs and hip — the flank — and 'skopein,' meaning 'to look at' or 'examine' (the same root behind 'telescope' and 'microscope'). So the word literally means 'flank-looking.' The instrument and technique took shape in the early 20th century as doctors figured out how to peer into the abdominal cavity using a scope and a bit of inflating gas, long before 'minimally invasive' became a selling point.
- origin
- Greek for flank plus to see
- recovery edge
- days off work, not weeks
- the trick
- gas inflates belly for room to work
- first use
- diagnosing, decades before it cut anything