surgical procedure

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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
• Syn:
operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical process
• Derivationally related forms:
surgical (for: surgery), operate (for: operation), operative (for: operation)
• Topics:
surgery
• Members of this Topic:
freeze, suction, decorticate, ablate, hypophysectomize,
hypophysectomise, trepan
• Hypernyms:
medical procedure
• Hyponyms:
catheterization, catheterisation, ablation, extirpation, cutting out,
excision, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery,
castration, cautery, cauterization, cauterisation, chemosurgery, craniotomy,
cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, debridement, decortication, dilation and curettage,
dilatation and curettage, D and C, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation,
wrong-site surgery, evisceration, exenteration, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration,
gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy,
hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery,
minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery,
orchiopexy, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty,
UPPP, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty,
polypectomy, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, transsexual surgery,
Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation, sterilization, sterilisation, strabotomy, taxis,
tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, organ transplant, trephination,
tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection
• Part Meronyms:
hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia, incision,
section, surgical incision, suturing