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UK
/sˈɜːdʒəɹi/
]
[ US /ˈsɝdʒɝi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɝdʒɝi/ ]
NOUN
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a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
he read the warning in the doctor's surgery -
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic -
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 -
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School
How To Use surgery In A Sentence
- I have a patient who had major abdominal surgery a few years ago for a fulminant illness.
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- Remember that even if your surgery is performed in an office or surgicenter, your surgeon should have hospital privileges to perform that procedure. You: On a Diet
- He visited a specialist yesterday to find out whether he requires surgery. Times, Sunday Times
- Non-emergency surgery planned over the next few days had to be cancelled because of the blood donor crisis.
- Webb had shoulder surgery in August, a so-called "debridement" procedure that amounted to a clean-up of his rotator cuff and labrum. Azcentral.com | news
- he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy
- Sometimes, they can detect the plastic implanted in my abdomen to repair a hernia from a prior surgery, but other times the miss the plastic. Discourse.net: Former Asst Police Chief Gives TSA a Failing Grade
- Or you could specialise in orthodontics, oral pathology, child dental health or even train to become a maxillofacial surgeon someone who specialises in facial surgery. Dentistry
- Causes of hemoptysis in children with congenital cardiopathies, whether they undergo surgery or not, are many: extracorporeal circulation, pulmonary infections, coagulopathies, vascular disorders.