Surgery (album)
WordNet
noun
(1) A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
"They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"
"He died while undergoing surgery"
(2) A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
"Great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
(3) A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
"He read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
(4) The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
"He is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
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Etymology
From surgerie, contracted form of cirurgie, from chirurgia, from , from "hand" + "work".
Noun
- A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- I would discuss hospital policy to you more, but I’m wanted in surgery.
- A doctor's consulting room.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to pick up my prescription.
- Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
- Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
- A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".