← CH4 MED TERM(surgical terms) Export Options Alphabetize Word-Def Delimiter Tab Comma Custom Def-Word Delimiter New Line Semicolon Custom Data Copy and paste the text below. It is read-only. Select All cauterization destruction of tissue with a hot or cold instrument, electric current, or caustic substance(aka cautery) cryosurgery destruction of tissue by using extreme cold, often by using liquid nitrogen debridement removal of contaminiated or dead tissue and foreign matter from an open wound dermabrasion procedure to remove skin scars with abrasive material such as sandpaper excision removal by cutting incision surgical cut of wound produced by a sharp instrument incision and drainage surgical cut made to allow the free flow or withdrawal of fluids from a lesion, wound or cavity laser surgery procedure using an instrument that emits a high powered beam of light used to cut, burn, vaporize or destroy tissue mohs surgery technique of microscopically controlled serial excisions of skin cancers suturing to stitch edges of wounds surgically