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surgery > 4 senses
NOUN	1	surgery	The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
	2	surgery	A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
	3	surgery, operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre	A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
	4	surgery, operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process	A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments

surgery > pronunciation
Sounds	ser'jheriy
Rhymes	accessory, adultery, advisory, and 195 more rhymes in eriy...

surgery > noun 1, cognition
Meaning	The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.
Examples	"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
Category of	maxillofacial; ligation; operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process; centesis; drain; landmark; stoma; graft, transplant; amastia; phlebothrombosis, venous thrombosis; ligate; extirpate; enucleate; exenterate; decerebrate
Broader	medical science
Adjectives	surgical; surgical

surgery > noun 2, artifact
Meaning	A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted.
Examples	"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
Region	United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Broader	room

surgery > noun 3, artifact
Meaning	A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.
Synonyms	operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre
Broader	hospital room

surgery > noun 4, act
Meaning	A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments. Performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.
Examples	"he died while undergoing surgery"
Synonyms	operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Parts	hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia; incision, section, surgical incision; suturing
Category of	freeze; suction; decorticate; ablate; hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise; trepan
Category	surgery
Broader	medical procedure
Narrower	catheterization, catheterisation; ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision; amputation; angioplasty; arthroplasty; arthroscopy; brain surgery; castration; cautery, cauterization, cauterisation; chemosurgery; craniotomy; cryosurgery; curettage, curettement; debridement; decortication; dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C; electrosurgery; enterostomy, enterotomy; enucleation; wrong-site surgery; evisceration; exenteration; fenestration; gastrectomy; gastroenterostomy; gastrostomy; heart surgery; hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy; hysterotomy; implantation; iridectomy; iridotomy; intestinal bypass; jejunostomy; major surgery; microsurgery; minor surgery; myotomy; myringectomy; myringoplasty; myringotomy; neurosurgery; orchiopexy; osteotomy; ostomy; palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP; phlebectomy; photocoagulation; plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty; polypectomy; resection; rhinotomy; rhizotomy; sex-change operation, transsexual surgery; Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation; sterilization, sterilisation; strabotomy; taxis; tracheostomy, tracheotomy; transplant, transplantation, organ transplant; trephination; tympanoplasty; uranoplasty; vasovasostomy; vivisection
Adjectives	surgical; surgical; nonsurgical

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