surgery
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(noun) (British) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery" |
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Related Words: room |
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(noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School" |
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Related Words: medical science, orthopaedics, orthopedics |
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(noun) a therapeutic procedure with instruments 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" |
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Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure |
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Related Words: D and C, Shirodkar's operation, ablation, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, autoplasty, castration, chemosurgery, colostomy, corneal gaft, cosmetic surgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, excision, extirpation, face lift, face lifting, heart surgery, jejunostomy, keratoplasty, laparotomy, lobotomy, major surgery, minor surgery, neurosurgery, nose job, plastic surgery, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, purse-string operation, rhinoplasty, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, sclerotomy, strabotomy, therapy, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, trephination, vivisection |
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(noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic" |
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Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre |
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Related Words: emergency room, hospital room |
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