SURGERY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Surgery

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Surgery

noun

The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.

A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted.

A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations. Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR.

A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body. Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process. "He died while undergoing surgery"

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"Surgery" Quotes from Famous Books

... finished my curriculum with high honours—I was gold medallist of my year in both medicine and surgery—I became house-surgeon to one of the London hospitals. After my term of office was over I remained at the hospital for another year, for I wished to make a practical study of my profession in all its ...

— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard

... his head open on a rock, diving in the lake, and has remained unconscious ever since. This is partly due to an opiate I have administered to insure complete quiet; and he will not awake for several hours yet. He received the best surgery as soon as he was brought here and placed in my hands ...

— Lazarre • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... my little knowledge of surgery teaches me that a wound so violent, made with a cutlass in such a part, must be mortal. But mortality to me is a blessing. To live would indeed be misery. Torments never yet were imagined equal to those I have ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... know a bit about such things. A big surgery journal, back in the '40s, had published a visionary article on grafting a whole limb, with colored plates as if for a real procedure[A]. Then they'd developed techniques for acclimating a graft to the host's serum, so it would not react as a foreign body. First, they'd transplanted ...

— A Matter of Proportion • Anne Walker

... of the House of Representatives of the 27th instant, the Senate concurring, I return herewith the bill (H.R. 5731) entitled "An act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in the District ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

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