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surgery
English
Etymology
From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kheirourgía), from ???? (kheír, “hand”) + ????? (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?d???i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??d???i/
Noun
surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)
- (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 51:
- The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 51:
- (Britain) A doctor's office.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- (Britain) 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.
- (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
Synonyms
- (procedure): operation
- (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre
- (doctor's office): office (UK)
Hypernyms
- medical speciality
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- surgery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
surgery
- Alternative form of surgerie
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operable
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??.p?.??.b?l/
Adjective
operable (comparative more operable, superlative most operable)
- Able to be operated or used
- Able to be put into operation; practicable
- Able to be treated by surgery
Antonyms
- inoperable
Derived terms
- operability
Translations
Anagrams
- ropeable
Spanish
Adjective
operable (plural operables)
- operable (able to be treated by surgery)
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