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Definition surgery

Etymology

From Middle English surgerie, borrowed from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kheirourgía), from ???? (kheír, “hand”) + ????? (érgon, “work”).

Noun

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

1. (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
2. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. A room or department where surgery is performed.
4. (Britain) A doctor's office.
5. (Britain) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
6. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
7. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

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