There are 2 surgical approaches in hernia repair surgery: the open and the laparoscopic one. An approach is called open, when the surgeon makes a single incision near the location of the hernia, dissects the surrounding tissues and repairs the hernia under direct vision.
In general, we call the largest areas of land on earth the continents of the earth.
Total Landmass of Earth. Earth is a watery place, with around 70 percent of its surface covered in water, the vast majority of which is salt water. This leaves around 30 percent of the planet's surface as potential farmland, totaling just over 57 million square miles.