# surgery
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɝd͡ʒəɹi/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɜːd͡ʒəɹi/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)
* (medicine, usually uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
    Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
** 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times‎: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.
* (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, published 2007, page 51:The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.
* (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
    I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
* (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
** 1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small:Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.
* (British) 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.
* (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
** 2019, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications, page 716:The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.

#### Synonyms

* (procedure): operation, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
* (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
* (doctor's office): office (UK)

#### Hypernyms

* medical speciality

#### Hyponyms

* bloodless surgery
* bottom surgery
* brain surgery
* bypass surgery
* gender affirmation surgery
* gender-affirming surgery
* meatball surgery
* needlescopic surgery
* neurosurgery
* remote surgery
* telesurgery

#### Derived terms

* aesthetic surgery
* antisurgery
* biosurgery
* bottom surgery
* Caldwell-Luc surgery
* cardiosurgery
* chemosurgery
* chest surgery
* cosmetic surgery
* craniosurgery
* cryosurgery
* cybersurgery
* Dehn surgery
* dental surgery
* dermasurgery
* domino surgery
* electrosurgery
* endosurgery
* esthetic surgery
* gastrosurgery
* gender confirmation surgery
* gender reallocation surgery
* general surgery
* hydrosurgery
* hypnosurgery
* immunosurgery
* keyhole surgery
* laparoscopic surgery
* laser eye surgery
* laser surgery
* liposurgery
* lower surgery
* macrosurgery
* microfracture surgery
* microradiosurgery
* microsurgery
* nanosurgery
* open-heart surgery
* oral surgery
* orthosurgery
* otosurgery
* phonosurgery
* piezosurgery
* plastic surgery
* polysurgery
* postsurgery
* presurgery
* proctosurgery
* psychic surgery
* psychosurgery
* radiosurgery
* rhinosurgery
* rocket surgery
* self-surgery
* sex reassignment surgery
* shotgun surgery
* single-incision laparoscopic surgery
* surgeon
* surgery hours
* surgerymaxx
* surgical
* surgiholic
* telesurgery
* Tommy John surgery
* top surgery
* tree surgery
* upper surgery
* vanity surgery
* videosurgery

#### Translations

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### References

* Surgery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Guerrys

## Middle English
### Noun

surgery
* Alternative form of surgerie