surgery

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by the use of instruments.

Treatment based on such medicine, typically involving the removal or replacement of diseased tissue by cutting.

A procedure that is part of this treatment; an operation.

An operating room or a laboratory of a surgeon or of a hospital’s surgical staff.

A physician’s, dentist’s, or veterinarian’s office.

The period during which a physician, dentist, or veterinarian consults with or treats patients in the office.

The work of a surgeon; surgical care; therapy of a distinctly operative kind, such as cutting-operations, the reduction and putting up of fractures and dislocations, and similar manual forms of treatment.

Pl. surgeries (-iz). A place where surgical operations are performed, or where medicines are prepared; in Great Britain, the consulting-office and dispensary of a general practitioner.