Surgery

Quick meaning: Surgery is a noun meaning (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

Meaning

(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

More Meanings

1. A room or department where surgery is performed.
2. (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
3. (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
4. (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
5. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
6. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
7. (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).

Example Sentences

Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.

The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.

I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for surgery

Depending on context, synonyms include operation, theatre, office.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include operation, surgical, surgically, surgeon, chirurgie, physician.

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