To examine or treat pathological conditions like a disease or injury, alter bodily functions, improve appearance, or remove or replace unwanted tissues or foreign bodies, surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and/or instrumental techniques to physically reach into a subject's body. The medical specialty of surgery is concerned with the manual and instrumental treatment of injuries, diseases, and other conditions. Except when patients with the latter type of disease need to be operated on, surgery is used to treat acute injuries and illnesses as opposed to chronic, slowly progressing diseases.
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