surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
Forms: form: surgeries
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.
Senses: examples: text: Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
text: 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.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
examples: text: The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 51:
glosses: A room or department where surgery is performed.
examples: text: I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
glosses: A doctor's office; a clinic.
examples: text: Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.
ref: 1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small:
glosses: A medical practitioner’s office hours.
examples: text: Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
glosses: Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
topics: business
finance
qualifier: bankruptcy
glosses: A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
examples: text: The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.
ref: 2019, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications, page 716:
glosses: Drastic changes made to anything.
Synonyms: sense: procedure
word: operation
sense: procedure
word: bright lights and cold steel
sense: site of surgical operations
word: operating room
sense: site of surgical operations
word: operating theatre
sense: site of surgical operations
word: theatre
sense: site of surgical operations
word: bright lights and cold steel
sense: doctor's office
word: office
Hypernyms: medical speciality
Hyponyms: aesthetic surgery
bloodless surgery
bottom surgery
brain surgery
bypass surgery
Caldwell-Luc surgery
chest surgery
cosmetic surgery
Dehn surgery
dental surgery
gender affirmation surgery
gender-affirming surgery
gender realignment surgery
gender reassignment surgery
general surgery
keyhole surgery
laparoscopic surgery
laser eye surgery
laser surgery
meatball surgery
microfracture surgery
needlescopic surgery
neurosurgery
open-heart surgery
oral surgery
plastic surgery
remote surgery
self-surgery
sex reassignment surgery
single-incision laparoscopic surgery
telesurgery
Tommy John surgery
top surgery
vanity surgery
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
pre-surgery
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