surgery

Meaning

Noun

• A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
• The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
• A room or department where surgery is performed.
• A doctor's office.
• Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
• A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
• The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Related

Similar words

• operation, bright lights and cold steel
• operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel
• office

Narrower meaning words

• brain surgery
• bypass surgery
• meatball surgery
• neurosurgery
• remote surgery
• telesurgery

Broader meaning words

• medical speciality

Origin

• From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία, from χείρ + ἔργον. chirurgy.