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8	OED Oxford English Dictionary The definitive record of the English language
9	EXAMPLE Non-surgical, adj. Med. 1. Of a disorder: not requiring surgery; (of a disorder or a patient) not customarily treated surgically. Cf. MEDICAL adj. 1b. 1888 Science 26 Oct. 203/1 The clinical diagnosis of non-surgical diseases. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 194 101/2 The distinction between surgical and nonsurgical jaundice has been hindered by lack of a reliable test for biliary tract obstruction. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 472/1 The general internist..is competent to handle critically ill patients and nonsurgical disorders. 2002 Cancer 94 352 The overall survival rates..were better in nonsurgical patients compared with surgical patients. 2. Not involving surgery; not resulting from or caused by surgery. 1889 F. H. DAVENPORT (title) Diseases of women; a manual of non-surgical gynecology. 1916 Science 14 Jan. 71/2 Treatment by surgical and non-surgical means. 1937 Science 24 Sept. 277/2 No less brilliant have been the advances that have occurred in the non-surgical fields. 1987 Proc. Mayo Clinic 62 379 Two of the three patients who required reoperation..were found to have a nonsurgical cause of bleeding. 1997 Jrnl. Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 40 701 The use in the non-surgical intensive care unit was 40 times the average use in the hospital.
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