Surgery

Surgery

Contributors in Surgery

Surgery

One of the most famous surgeons in history is John Heysham Gibbon. Gibbon was born in 1903 and died in 1973. Gibbon followed in the footsteps of a long line of medical doctors. He was known for the ...

Joseph Lister

Health care; Surgery

One of the biggest advancements in the history of surgery was the introduction of sterility to medicine. While many thought that "bad air" was the cause of infection, Joseph Lister observed that ...

otoplasty

Health care; Surgery

Otoplasty denotes the surgical and non-surgical procedures for correcting the deformities and defects of the pinna (external ear); and for reconstructing a defective, or deformed, or absent external ...

Cosmetic surgery

Health care; Surgery

Surgery that modifies or improves the appearance of a physical feature, irregularity, or defect.Reconstruction of cutaneous or underlying tissues, performed to improve and correct a structural defect ...