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Surgical Instruments

"Surgical Instruments" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Hand-held tools or implements used by health professionals for the performance of surgical tasks.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Surgical Instruments" by people in this website by year, and whether "Surgical Instruments" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2009 and 2017 and 2020 and 2022 and 2023
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