Noun Definition

surgery

1.Definition: 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"

Related Noun(s):operation

Category: General

2.Definition: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

Related Noun(s):or

Category: Objects

3.Definition: a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted

"He read the warning in the doctor's surgery"

Category: Objects

4.Definition: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

"He is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

Category: General