surgery
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝd͡ʒəɹi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːd͡ʒəɹi/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun edit
surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)
- (medicine, usually uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 51:
- The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.
- (British) A doctor's office.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- 1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small:
- Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.
- (British) 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.
- (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.
- (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
- 2019, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications, page 716:
- The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the
awaitkeyword.
Synonyms edit
- (procedure): operation, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
- (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
- (doctor's office): office (UK)
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- aesthetic surgery
- antisurgery
- biosurgery
- bottom surgery
- Caldwell-Luc surgery
- cardiosurgery
- chemosurgery
- chest surgery
- cosmetic surgery
- craniosurgery
- cryosurgery
- cybersurgery
- Dehn surgery
- dental surgery
- dermasurgery
- domino surgery
- electrosurgery
- endosurgery
- esthetic surgery
- gastrosurgery
- gender confirmation surgery
- gender reallocation surgery
- general surgery
- hydrosurgery
- hypnosurgery
- immunosurgery
- keyhole surgery
- laparoscopic surgery
- laser eye surgery
- laser surgery
- liposurgery
- lower surgery
- macrosurgery
- microfracture surgery
- microradiosurgery
- microsurgery
- nanosurgery
- open-heart surgery
- oral surgery
- orthosurgery
- otosurgery
- phonosurgery
- piezosurgery
- plastic surgery
- polysurgery
- postsurgery
- presurgery
- proctosurgery
- psychic surgery
- psychosurgery
- radiosurgery
- rhinosurgery
- rocket surgery
- rocket surgery
- self-surgery
- sex reassignment surgery
- shotgun surgery
- single-incision laparoscopic surgery
- surgeon
- surgery hours
- surgerymaxx
- surgical
- surgiholic
- telesurgery
- Tommy John surgery
- top surgery
- tree surgery
- upper surgery
- vanity surgery
- videosurgery
Translations edit
procedure involving major incisions
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medical specialty
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room or department where surgery is performed
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doctor's consulting room
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any consulting room
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any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician
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References edit
Surgery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
surgery
- Alternative form of surgerie