Sentence examples for surgical means from inspiring English sources

Although many CSF leaks correct themselves, sometimes they need to be repaired through various medical or surgical means.

Cricothyrotomy is the emergency surgical means of gaining access to the airways.

"It will not be possible to use any surgical means to bring about a significant delay," he said.

Conclusions: Modified posterior exenteration is an effective surgical means of eliminating pelvic disease in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

Cataract is still high on the list of causes of blindness in many countries, even though it is curable by surgical means.

Proponents of this aggressive approach contend that gastroesophageal reflux is the major factor promoting carcinogenesis in specialized intestinal metaplasia, and that elimination of acid reflux by pharmacologic or surgical means should prevent cancer.

For both the frequency of events reported and the overall perception of safety, significantly higher means were observed for diagnostics (mean = 3.97 ± 1.01; mean = 3.96 ± 0.68) as compared to surgical (mean = 3.78 ± 1.05; mean = 3.82 ± 0.67) and medical units (mean = 3.93 ± 0.99; mean = 3.83 ± 0.68) (See Table 1).

Nevertheless a role for vaccines undoubtedly exists as an aid to birth spacing, particularly in developing countries, and as a non-surgical means of inducing sterility in men.

People are typically referred for surgery only when their symptoms (e.g. pain, loss of physical function) become unmanageable by non-surgical means.

In the late stages of the disease, when pain, stiffness, and disability cannot be controlled by non-surgical means, the treatment is total hip replacement.

Development of such novel methods for quantifying and measuring the function of human BAT is important, as the restoration or upregulation of BAT activity in humans may provide a non-surgical means of treating obesity.