surgery

Noun

• 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
    

• a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
  • great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
    

• a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
  • he read the warning in the doctor's surgery
    

• the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
  • he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  operation , surgical operation , surgical procedure , surgical process , operating room , OR , operating theater , operating theatre