Surgery (disambiguation)
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Surgery
is a medical specialty that uses operative treatment. It also refers to the place where surgery is performed, or the offices of the practitioner, the surgeon.
Surgery may also mean:
In medicine:
In politics:
In mathematics:
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
is a medical specialty that uses operative treatment. It also refers to the place where surgery is performed, or the offices of the practitioner, the surgeon.
Surgery may also mean:
In medicine:
- In North American English, a surgical procedure or operation (e.g. "I had three surgeries").
- In British English, a doctor's office or consulting room where one can receive ambulatory careAmbulatory careAmbulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures delivered on an outpatient basis Ambulatory care is a personal health care consultation, treatment or intervention using advanced medical technology or procedures...
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In politics:
- Surgery (politics)Surgery (politics)A political surgery or clinic is a term used to describe a series of one-to-one meetings. A Member of Parliament may have with his or her constituents, at which a constituent may raise issues of local concern...
, a regular time scheduled by a British Member of Parliament to meet with constituents to discuss their concerns and issues, and by extension in British English, other such advice sessions offered by other bodies
In mathematics:
- Surgery theorySurgery theoryIn mathematics, specifically in geometric topology, surgery theory is a collection of techniques used to produce one manifold from another in a 'controlled' way, introduced by . Surgery refers to cutting out parts of the manifold and replacing it with a part of another manifold, matching up along...
, a mathematical operation used in topology; two special cases are:- Dehn surgeryDehn surgeryIn topology, a branch of mathematics, a Dehn surgery, named after Max Dehn, is a specific construction used to modify 3-manifolds. The process takes as input a 3-manifold together with a link...
- Hyperbolic Dehn surgeryHyperbolic Dehn surgeryIn mathematics, hyperbolic Dehn surgery is an operation by which one can obtain further hyperbolic 3-manifolds from a given cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold...
- Dehn surgery