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Excision
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Cutting out/off without replacement, a portion of a body part
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Resection
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Cutting out/off without replacement, all of a body part
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Detachment
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Cutting off all or part of the upper or lower extremities
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Destruction
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Physical eradication of all or a portion of a body part by the direct use of energy, force or a destructive agent
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Extraction
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Pulling or stripping out or off all or a portion of a body part by the use of force.
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Drainage
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Taking or letting out fluids or gases from a body part
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Extirpation
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Taking or cutting out solid matter, within a body part
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Fragmentation
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Breaking solid matter into pieces from a body part
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Division
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Cutting into a body part without draining fluids and/or gases from a body part in order to seperate or transect a body part
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Release
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Freeing a body part from abnormal physical constraint
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Alteration
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Modifying the natural anatomic structure of a body part without affecting the function of the body part
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Bypass
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Altering the route of passage of the contents of a tubular body part
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Change
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Taking out or off a device from a body part and putting back an identical or similar device in or on the same body part without cutting or puncturing the skin or a mucous membrane
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Control
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Stopping, or attempting to stop, postprocedural bleeding
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Creation
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Making a new genital structure that does not take over the function of a body part
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