SURGERY

operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

(noun) 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”

surgery

(noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; “he read the warning in the doctor’s surgery”

surgery

(noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; “he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

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

A room or department where surgery is performed.

(British) A doctor's office.

(British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

(finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

(topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Synonyms

• (procedure): operation

• (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre

• (doctor's office): office (UK)

Hypernyms

• medical speciality

Hyponyms

• brain surgery

• bypass surgery

• meatball surgery

• neurosurgery

• remote surgery

• telesurgery

Source: Wiktionary

Sur"ge*ry, n. Etym: [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. Surgeon.]

1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition