Main entry: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, operation
Definition: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Usage: they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available; he died while undergoing surgery
Main entry: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR, surgery
Definition: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
Usage: great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
Main entry: surgery
Definition: a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
Usage: he read the warning in the doctor's surgery
Main entry: surgery
Definition: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
Usage: he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School