surgery

Meanings

Plural: surgeries

Noun

• the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
  • "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
• a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
  • "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
• a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
• a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
  • "he died while undergoing surgery"
• A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
• The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
• A room or department where surgery is performed.
• A doctor's office; a clinic.
• A medical practitioner’s office hours.
• Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
• A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
• The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
• Drastic changes made to anything.

Synonyms

bright lights and cold steel, office, operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, operation, OR, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, theatre