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nouna room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operationstype of:
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"he died while undergoing surgery"nouna medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living bodytype of:
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"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"nouna room where a doctor or dentist can be consultedtype of:
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"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"nounthe branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedurestype of:
Definition that contains surgery
- curettage surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
- microsurgery surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures
- plastic surgery surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
- curettement surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
- reconstructive surgery surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
- electrosurgery surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery)
- anaplasty surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue