Surgery

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
 * 2) A room or department where surgery is performed.
 * I would discuss hospital policy to you more, but I’m wanted in surgery.
 * 1)  A doctor's consulting room.
 * I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to pick up my prescription.
 * 1)  Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
 * Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
 * 1)  A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
 * 2)  The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Synonyms

 * operation
 * operating room, operating theatre, theatre

Derived terms

 * surgeon
 * surgical
 * meatball surgery

Adjectives for Surgery
plastic; radical; painful; bold; bloody; magic; life-saving.

Thesaurus
X ray, abscission, amputation, antiseptic surgery, aseptic surgery, blood bank, bloodless surgery, butchering, cauterization, cautery, charity ward, chiroplasty, chopping, cleavage, clinic, consultation room, cryosurgery, cutting, delivery room, dental surgery, dichotomy, dispensary, electrocautery, electrolysis, electrolyzation, electroresection, electrosurgery, emergency, enucleation, examining room, excision, fever ward, fission, general surgery, heart surgery, hospital room, intensive care, isolation, labor room, laboratory, laceration, laser surgery, major surgery, maternity ward, minor surgery, mutilation, neurosurgery, nursery, open-heart surgery, operating room, operation, operative surgery, oral surgery, organ transplantation, orthopedic surgery, pharmacy, plastic surgery, prison ward, private room, prosthetics, radiosurgery, reconstructive surgery, recovery room, rending, reparative surgery, resection, ripping, scission, section, semi-private room, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting, surgical diathermy, surgical treatment, tearing, therapy, thoracic surgery, treatment room, urological surgery, veterinary surgery, ward

Etymology
From surgerie, contracted form of cirurgie, from  chirurgia:, from  χειρουργία:, from χείρ: + ἔργον:.

Translations

 * Arabic: عملية جراحية, جراحة
 * Catalan: cirurgia, operació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch: operatie
 * Esperanto: operacio
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: χειρουργείο,


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, cirurgia
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ameliyat
 * Welsh: llawdriniaeth


 * Arabic: جراحة
 * Catalan: cirurgia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 外科學, 外科学
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kirurgio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: χειρουργική
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 外科
 * Polish: chirurgia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: хирургия
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: quiròfan
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 外科
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: leikkaussali (room), kirurginen osasto (dept)
 * French: salle opératoire


 * Greek: χειρουργείο
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: операционная,  хирургическое отделение
 * Turkish: ameliyathane


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, vastaanottohuone
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Polish: gabinet lekarski


 * Finnish: vastaanottohuone


 * : chirurgia
 * : 외과 (oegwa)
 * : kirurgi (1), operation (1), operationssal (2)
 * : శస్త్రచికిత్స (Sastracikitsa)