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Noun: surgical operation
  1. (surgery) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
    "they will schedule the surgical operation as soon as an operating room is available";
    - operation, surgery, surgical procedure, surgical process, op [informal]

Derived forms: surgical operations

Type of: medical procedure

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