单词 | self-surgery |
释义 | self-surgeryn. The action or an act of performing a surgical procedure on oneself, typically as a result of extreme necessity, or as a manifestation of a psychiatric or psychological disorder.In quot. 1863 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [noun] > types of surgery generally plastic surgery1837 self-surgery1863 oral surgery1866 electrosurgery1870 Listerism1880 morioplasty1880 brain surgery1881 tachytomy1898 neurosurgery1904 radiosurgery1929 psychosurgery1936 microsurgery1959 microsurgery1960 cryosurgery1962 day surgery1968 work1968 biosurgery1969 psychic surgery1975 telesurgery1976 1863 Yale Lit. Mag. July 274 With a firm hand, and a keen-edged knife, then, let us perform a most delicate act of self-surgery, and separate ourselves from others. 1883 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 12 Aug. 1/3 Self-Surgery... A man entered Center market today, walked up to the butcher's stand and seizing a cleaver..chopped off the little finger on his left hand. 1912 Med. Brief Feb. 97/1 Daring Self-Surgery... An extraordinary account of an operation for hernia performed on himself under the influence of spinal anesthesia, by a young Roumanian surgeon. 1932 Montana Standard 24 Nov. 1/1 Archie Smith cut off his left arm with a pocket knife..after it had been caught in the gears of a tractor-driven corn picker... Physicians said his self-surgery saved his life. 1984 W. G. Guerriero & C. J. Devine Urol. Injuries x. 151 Genital self-surgery usually occurs in patients who are described as schizophrenic. 2016 Observer (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Life & Style section) Self-surgery is one of the hallmarks of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), where a person has a distorted view of how they look. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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