SURGERY
\sˈɜːd͡ʒəɹi], \sˈɜːdʒəɹi], \s_ˈɜː_dʒ_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of SURGERY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
By Princeton University
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Surgical
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The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
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A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
By Oddity Software
By James Champlin Fernald
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A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act, art, or science of treating injuries, deformities, or diseases by manual operations, or the use of the knife.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act or art of healing external diseases and injuries of the body; the place where a surgeon operates or where a medical man keeps and prepares his medicines.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act or art of curing or alleviating injuries or diseases of the body by manual operations; the place or room in which a surgeon operates; the private shop for dispensing, attached to the house of a practitioner.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Same etymon as surgeon. The part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, especially, to the manual operations adapted for their cure. Also, the office of a surgeon.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
