surgical process

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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure
(hypernym) medical procedure
(hyponym) ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
(part-meronym) hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia
(classification) surgery
(class) freeze