"psychic surgery" meaning in All languages combined

See psychic surgery on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: psychic surgeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} psychic surgery (countable and uncountable, plural psychic surgeries)
  1. A medical fraud in which a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his/her bare hands, using fake blood and other trickery. Wikipedia link: psychic surgery Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-psychic_surgery-en-noun-ZP9XkI72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pseudoscience

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