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psychic surgery
noun
A medical fraud in which a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his/her bare hands, using fake blood and other trickery.
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"Psychic surgery," she said.
He had told countless audiences of surviving near-drowning, "psychic surgery," claustrophobic attacks and what he described as the inescapable letdown of real life.
As much an adventurer as a scientist, Mr. Watson spent much of his life heading for remote regions of the globe, leading expeditions to the Antarctic, the Kalahari, Madagascar and Indonesia in search of isolated peoples and what he called "the soft edges of science" — paranormal phenomena like the fabled psychic surgery practiced in the Philippines.
Along with introducing the above, Usui/Tibetan Reiki can sometimes incorporate psychic surgery.
He asked me to read more and, if necessary, come by and learn directly about the power of his psychic surgery.
As I did my first round of the tables, about three-quarters of which were occupied, I was bombarded with pamphlets offering everything from psychic surgery to all-natural, non-cancer-causing deodorant.
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It can include digestive, psychic, or other types.
I translated this piece called "The surgery of psychic extirpation".
We've suffered a physical and psychic wound that requires surgery, not stitches.
No difference in psychic morbidity was detected after the two types of surgery.
The decline in anxiety and depression scores from pre to post CABG surgery points to the fact that the patients are under considerable psychic strain before CABG surgery.
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