surgery

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noun

1. the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
- he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School
• Derivationally related forms:
surgical
• Members of this Topic:
maxillofacial, ligation, operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure,
surgical process, centesis, drain, landmark, stoma, graft,
transplant, amastia, phlebothrombosis, venous thrombosis, ligate, extirpate,
enucleate, exenterate, decerebrate
• Hypernyms:
medical science
2. a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
- he read the warning in the doctor's surgery
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
room
3. 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
• Syn:
operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
• Derivationally related forms:
surgical, operate (for: operation), operative (for: operation)
• Members of this Topic:
freeze, suction, decorticate, ablate, hypophysectomize,
hypophysectomise, trepan
• Hypernyms:
medical procedure
• Hyponyms:
catheterization, catheterisation, ablation, extirpation, cutting out,
excision, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery,
castration, cautery, cauterization, cauterisation, chemosurgery, craniotomy,
cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, debridement, decortication, dilation and curettage,
dilatation and curettage, D and C, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation,
wrong-site surgery, evisceration, exenteration, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration,
gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy,
hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery,
minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery,
orchiopexy, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty,
UPPP, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty,
polypectomy, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, transsexual surgery,
Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation, sterilization, sterilisation, strabotomy, taxis,
tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, organ transplant, trephination,
tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection
• Part Meronyms:
hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia, incision,
section, surgical incision, suturing
4. a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
- great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
• Syn:
operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre
• Hypernyms:
hospital room

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre