surgery
nounUK /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ · US /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
Etymology 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.
9 senses
- 1The act or process of medical intervention involving…
- 2The medical specialty related to the performance of…
- 3A room or department where surgery is performed.
- 4A doctor's office; a clinic.
- 5A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- 6Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an…
- 7A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- 8The production of a manifold by removing parts of one…
- 9Drastic changes made to anything.
Medicine, Sciences Usually The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
- 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.2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
Medicine, Sciences The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
A room or department where surgery is performed.
- The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 51:
UK A doctor's office; a clinic.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
UK A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small:
UK 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.
Mathematics, Sciences, Topology The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
Broadly, Figuratively Drastic changes made to anything.
- The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.2019, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications, page 716:
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72 terms
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34 terms
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