surgical operation
surgical operation
n.
surgical procedure, surgery, operation, operation performed by a surgeon
Surgery
Surgery (from the
cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via , meaning "hand work") is an ancient
medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a
patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as
disease or
injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas (for example,
a perforated ear drum).
surgical operation
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 procedure, surgical process
(hypernym) medical procedure
(hyponym) ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
(part-meronym) hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia
(classification) surgery
(class) freeze
surgical operation
operasie