Band-Aid surgery
n.— «Minimally invasive surgery is sometimes called Band-Aid surgery because it is done through small incisions, using technologies such as miniature cameras with microscopes, tiny fiber-optic flashlights and high-definition monitors.» —“Duke hires chief of endosurgery” by Jim Shamp Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.) June 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Janet in Montgomery, Alabama, reports that a day after she had surgery on her hand, the wound burst open, and a doctor noted that her wound dehisced. She’s used to hearing dehisce used in botany to mean the splitting of a plant structure to...