English Online Dictionary. What means surgery? What does surgery mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝd͡ʒəɹi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːd͡ʒəɹi/
Noun
surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)
- (medicine, usually uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
- (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
Synonyms
- (procedure): operation, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
- (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
- (doctor's office): office (UK)
Hypernyms
- medical speciality
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Surgery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Guerrys
Middle English
Noun
surgery
- Alternative form of surgerie