See Also: surgery(dictionary)
surgery(medicine)
surgery(dictionary)
Surgery(health)
surgery(encyclopedia)
SURGERY, med(law)
stereotactic surgery(medicine)
vascular surgery(medicine)
transsexual surgery(medicine)
thoracoscopic surgery(medicine)

surgery (iou)



surgery noun. ME.
[Old French surgerie contr. of serurgerie, cir-, from serurgien, cir-: see SURGEON, -ERY. Cf. CHIRURGERY.]
The branch of medical practice which treats injuries, deformities, and other bodily disorders by physical operation or manipulation; surgical treatment, a surgical operation. ME.
conservative surgery: see CONSERVATIVE adjective. plastic surgery: see PLASTIC adjective 1b. tree surgery: see TREE noun.
Maledicta The operating room, with..a crucial surgery about to begin. fig.: Winning This year's course has undergone..drastic surgery involving a reduction in duration.
A place where a doctor (esp. a general practitioner) or dentist sees and treats patients; the regular session at which a doctor or dentist receives patients for consultation in this place. M19.
attrib.: P. Audemars These are surgery hours...I have patients waiting.
A (usu. regular) session at which a Member of Parliament, local councillor, etc., is available to be consulted locally by his or her constituents; a room or office in which this takes place. M20.
b. A similar occasion when free advice is provided by a lawyer, accountant, etc. L20.
Math. The topological alteration of manifolds by conceptually removing a neighbourhood and replacing it by another having the same boundary; an instance of this. M20.