After four abdominal operations, her 55-year-old husband is a passive presence.

Any abdominal operation will leave you with an inability to lift or carry things for at least a month.

Due to a serious abdominal operation for cancer removal, he did not conduct for most of 1941.

She died "having lost he will to live" after a serious abdominal operation in the early 1950s.

Years later, a similar experience occurred with another relative of mine, Beth, who had just been through a major abdominal operation.

Warren became very successful in the years after the war, performing one of the first abdominal operations in America.

He hunched as if he'd recently had an abdominal operation.

The cause was a heart attack after complications from two abdominal operations last week, his son Jonathan said.

It is a drastic step, carrying all the pain and risk of any major abdominal operation.

She became ill and was taken to a nursing home, where an abdominal operation was performed on 16 November 1938.