A61B 2018/044
The surgical action being effected by a circulating hot fluid
Official title: {the surgical action being effected by a circulating hot fluid}
A61B2018/044 (The surgical action being effected by a circulating hot fluid) appears on 863 US grants and 1,110 published applications in this corpus.
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