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1. The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
   "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
    
2. [Brit] A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
   "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
    
3. A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
   - operating room [N. Amer], OR [N. Amer], operating theater [US], operating theatre
    
4. A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
   "he died while undergoing surgery"
   - operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, op

Derived forms: surgeries

See also: nonsurgical, surgical

Type of: hospital room, medical procedure, medical science, room

Encyclopedia: Surgery Surgery, oral Surgery, plastic