wrong-site surgery

1. 1.

   a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body

   Broaderoperation

Questions about wrong-site surgery

What does wrong-site surgery mean?

wrong-site surgery means "a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body".

Is wrong-site surgery a common word?

wrong-site surgery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.