Associations to the word «surgery»

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

SURGERY, noun. ​(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

SURGERY, noun. A room or department where surgery is performed.

SURGERY, noun. ​ (British) A doctor's consulting room.

SURGERY, noun. (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.

SURGERY, noun. (finance) (bankruptcy) (slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

SURGERY, noun. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

SURGERY, noun. The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School".

SURGERY, noun. A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery".

SURGERY, noun. A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic".

SURGERY, noun. A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery".