Definitions for: Surgery


[n]
[n] a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
[n] (British) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
[n] the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"



Webster (1913) Definition: Sur"ge*ry, n. [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF.
cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. ?. See 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.

Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, operation, OR, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

See Also: ablation, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, autoplasty, brain surgery, castration, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, D and C, debridement, decortication, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, emergency room, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, evisceration, excision, exenteration, extirpation, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, haemorrhoidectomy, haemostasia, haemostasis, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, hemostasia, hemostasis, hospital room, hysterotomy, implantation, incision, intestinal bypass, iridectomy, iridotomy, jejunostomy, major surgery, medical procedure, medical science, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, nose job, orchiopexy, orthopaedics, orthopedics, osteotomy, ostomy, phalloplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, rhinoplasty, room, section, surgical incision

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