Meaning of surgery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
   uncountable, usually
2. consultation
3. The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure)
4. Medicine. removal of part of the body by surgery.
5. query, question
6. The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
   countable, uncountable
7. The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures
8. excision or amputation.
9. surgery (doctor's consulting room)
10. A room or department where surgery is performed.
    countable, uncountable
11. A room or department where surgery is performed
12. Obsolete, cautery.
    Obsolete,
13. third-person singular present indicative
14. A doctor's office; a clinic.
    British, countable, uncountable
15. A doctor's office; a clinic
16. the act of cauterization, or burning away of dead tissue.
17. second-person singular imperative
18. A medical practitioner’s office hours.
    British, countable, uncountable
19. A medical practitioner’s office hours
20. a surgical perforation or puncture.
21. Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
    British, countable, uncountable
22. Archaic. surgery.
23. A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
    countable, slang, uncountable
24. the breaking of a bone into small pieces. See also bones.
25. The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
    countable, uncountable
26. a surgical instrument for opening a hole in the skull.
27. Drastic changes made to anything.
    broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
28. a surgical technique using freezing to destroy tissue.
29. any form of plastic surgery of the skin, as skin grafts.

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Examples

“Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.”

“When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.”

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

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

“Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.”

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

“The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.”

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