surgery

noun

  1. 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. 2

    a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

    great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic

  3. 3

    a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted

    he read the warning in the doctor's surgery

  4. 4

    the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

    he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School

Synonyms

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