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SILS

SILS is the initialism of single-incision laparoscopic surgery.

Meaning of single-incision laparoscopic surgery

Noun

single-incision laparoscopic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural single-incision laparoscopic surgeries)

  1. A laparoscopy technique where only a single incision of between 1½ and 5 centimetres is made, mostly through the umbilicus.

Noun capitalized: SILs

SILs

  1. (plural) plural of SIL

Questions about SILS

What is SILS the initialism of?
SILS is the initialism of single-incision laparoscopic surgery.
What part of speech is SILS?
SILS is a noun.

Words near SILS in the dictionary

  1. silphiperfolenes
  2. silphium
  3. silphiums
  4. silrada
  5. silrady
  6. SILS
  7. Silsbee
  8. Silsby
  9. Silsbys
  10. Silsden
  11. silsesquioxane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SILS (page history and authors); SILs (page history and authors); single-incision laparoscopic surgery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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