SURGERY

• (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

  "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available", "he died while undergoing surgery"

  synonyms : operation , surgical operation , surgical procedure , surgical process

• (noun) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

  "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

  synonyms : operating room , operating theater , operating theatre , or

• (noun) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted

  "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"

• (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

  "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

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Mnemonics for surgery

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