surgical procedure

1. (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"
Synonyms: operation, surgery, surgical operation
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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