- Frazier-Spiller operation
- Fra·zier-Spil·ler operation (fraґzhər spilґər) [Charles Harrison Frazier, American surgeon, 1870–1936; William Gibson Spiller, American neurologist, 1863–1940] see under operation.
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Frazier-Spiller operation
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