biosurgeryn.
/ˈbʌɪə(ʊ)ˌsəːdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbaɪoʊˌsərdʒ(ə)ri/ Medicine.
Surgery based on biological principles or using biological products; spec. the use of maggots to clean wounds. Cf. biotherapy n. 2.
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day surgery1968
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biosurgery1969
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1969 Lahey Clinic Found. Bull. 18 89 (title) The advent of biosurgery.
1995 New Scientist 3 June 50/3 Zoologists at Oxford University are now breeding maggots for what is delicately called ‘bio-surgery’.
1999 European Jrnl. Cardio-thoracic Surg. 15 Suppl. S1/2 I understand ‘biosurgery’ as the direct and selective enhancement of nature's plasticity, that is, surgical maneuvers that although they most often do not address the diseased area result in beneficial hemodynamic changes or stimulate nature's reparative process.
2000 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Aug. 10 The use of maggots and other creepy-crawlies—now known as biosurgery—has much stronger arguments in its favour.
2007 Postgraduate Med. Jrnl. 83 409/1 The therapeutic use of fly larvae to debride necrotic tissue, also known as larval therapy, maggot debridement therapy or biosurgery, dates back to the beginnings of civilisation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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