Noun
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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"
- surgical operation - surgical procedure - surgical process -
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
"great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
- operating room - operating theater - operating theatre -
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
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the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"