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3 | 35% | 7 | What atropine does | |
No Atropine Used During Surgery Crossword Clue
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About This Clues Answer
We think the answer is "OPERATION" which means:
- noun
- • The state of being in effect or being operative
- • A business especially one run on a large scale
- • A planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- • (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- • Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- • A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- • A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- • Process or manner of functioning or operating
- • (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- • (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- • The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
An example sentence would be:
- • "The doctors performed a complex heart operation on the patient."
- • "The police are conducting an operation to catch the criminal."
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