English

Noun

surgery ‎(countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

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

   Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

2. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. A room or department where surgery is performed.
   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 51:

     The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.

4. (Britain) A doctor's office.

   I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

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

   Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.

6. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
7. (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

• bypass surgery
• meatball surgery
• remote surgery
• telesurgery

Derived terms

• surgeon
• surgical
• telesurgery

Translations

References

• surgery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia