"psychic surgery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: psychic surgeries [plural]
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  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 Categories (topical): Pseudoscience

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