surgical risk

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• risk — The probability that an event will occur. attributable r. the rate of a disease or other outcome in exposed individuals that can be attributed to the exposure. competing r. an event that removes a subject from being at r. for an outcome under… …   Medical dictionary

• Risk factors for breast cancer — Risk factors of breast cancer may be divided into preventable and non preventable. Their study belongs in the field of epidemiology. Breast cancer, like other forms of cancer, is considered to result from multiple environmental and hereditary… …   Wikipedia

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• high-risk — (hīʹrĭskʹ) adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characterized by risk: a high risk business. 2. Being particularly subject to potential danger or hazard: a high risk surgical procedure. * * * …   Universalium