surgerynoun
uk/ˈsɜː.dʒər.i/us/ˈsɝː.dʒər.i/surgery noun (MEDICAL OPERATION)
B2 [ U ] the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the damaged part:
The patient had/underwent surgery on his heart.
He made a good recovery after surgery to remove a brain tumour.
[ C ] US an occasion when a medical operation involving cutting open the body is performed on someone :
He has had three surgeries on his wrist in the past two years.
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- With something as delicate as brain surgery, there is little margin for error .
- Heart surgery exacts tremendous skill and concentration.
- In the 1870s and 1880s, doctors began to follow the principles of antiseptic surgery.
- Ligatures are used in surgery to stop the flow of a bleeding artery.
- Without surgery, this animal will die slowly and painfully.
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Medical treatment: surgery
- ablate
- adrenalectomy
- anaesthesiology
- anastomose
- anesthesiology
- circumcise
- collagen
- eviscerate
- facelift
- frontal lobotomy
- implant
- keyhole surgery
- laminectomy
- laparoscopic
- laparoscopy
- laparotomy
- ligation
- nose job
- pump out sth
- transplant
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surgery noun (ADVICE)
B2 [ C or U ] UK US office a place where you can go to ask advice from or receive treatment from a doctor or dentist:
If you come to the surgery at 10.30, the doctor will see you then.
On Saturday mornings, surgery (= the period of opening of the place where you can go to see your doctor) is from 9.00 to 12.00.
[ C ] UK the regular period of time when a person can visit their Member of Parliament to ask advice:
Our MP holds a weekly surgery on Friday mornings.
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Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- emergency room
- ENT
- er
- health maintenance organization
- institution
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- the funny farm
- theatre
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