surgery

Plural: surgeries

Noun

• The medical treatment of diseases or injuries by operation.
• 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.

Examples

• I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
• It felt like intricate word surgery to perfectly place the last few tiles for a win.
• Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
• Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

Synonyms

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