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Surgery   /sˈərdʒəri/   Listen
Surgery

noun
1.
The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.
2.
A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted.
3.
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.  Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR.
4.
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



... demonstration of the breadth of applied science, embrace electrical means of communication, including wireless telegraphy and telephony, musical instruments, chemistry, photography, instruments of precision and of surgery, theatrical appliances, engineering, architecture, map-making, typography, printing, book-binding, paper manufacture, scientific apparatus, typewriters, coins and medals, and innumerable other articles. A great space is occupied by talking machines "demonstrated" in musical theatres, and by cameras. ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... world. She drains and plants these unwholesome places; powerful men and lovely women are the Mariposa cedars which attest her splendid tillage. But a part of this Nature consists of conservative decency in men who belong to law-abiding and Protestant races. For want of this, surgery and cautery became Nature's expedients for Hayti, which was one of the worst ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... a jolly fellow, full of fun, and did lots of good things for his uncles. He showed them the plants and roots good for food, and taught them the arts of surgery and medicine, but as the years went by he did some things that caused him to be feared very much. His uncles always went to him when they got into trouble, but whether he would help them or not depended much on the humor he was ...
— Algonquin Indian Tales • Egerton R. Young

... boat, as aforesaid, upon breaking it open by the water-side, I found a mattress, some shirts, shoes, stockings, and several other useful things; a small case of bottles with cordials in them, some instruments of surgery, plasters and salves; all which, together with a large quantity of fish that I had salted, ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock

... surgery, skimming the contents of a medical journal in search of the newer methods of treatment. Now and again he glanced from the printed pages out of his window at the asphalt path leading from the gate to his front door, not ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin


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