1.   Once the patient was fully anesthetized, the surgeon made a small incision in his chest.

2.   The surgeon made a thin incision with the scalpel.

3.   The surgeon made a transverse incision across her abdomen.

4.   At least he feels that surgeons have made his pitching arm sound again.

5.   A surgeon made an incision into the appropriate area of the abdomen and sewed the tear back together with sutures designed not to dissolve.

6.   A surgeon will make a small incision in the left side of her neck to expose the vagus nerve, about the diameter of a guitar string.

7.   Howscalpel-happy surgeons have made fibroids the chief reason for hysterectomy, the most common operation after another overused, women-only procedure, Caesarean section.

8.   In a standard coronary bypass operation, surgeons make a foot-long incision in the chest, split the breast bone and stop the heart.

9.   In both cases, surgeons will make a small incision in an artery in the leg, and thread a catheter through the blood vessels leading to the aneurysm.

10.   In the laparoscopy procedure, the uterus is removed through the vagina but surgeons also make small holes in the abdomen wall to insert instruments.