Surgery
Surgery (from the Greek: χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, “hand”, and ἔργον, “work”), via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning “hand work”) is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
The act of performing surgery may be called a “surgical procedure”, “operation”, or simply “surgery”. In this context, the verb “operate” means to perform surgery. The adjective “surgical” means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical nurse. The patient or subject on which the surgery is performed can be a person or an animal. A surgeon is a person who practices surgery and a surgeon’s assistant is a person who practices surgical assistance. A surgical team is made up of surgeon, surgeon’s assistant, anesthesia provider, circulating nurse and surgical technologist. Surgery usually spans minutes to hours, but it is typically not an ongoing or periodic type of treatment. The term “surgery” can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or, in British English, simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian.
Operation (noun)
The method by which a device performs its function.
“It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.”
Operation (noun)
The method or practice by which actions are done.
Operation (noun)
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operation (noun)
A planned undertaking.
“The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.”
“The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.”
Operation (noun)
A business or organization.
“We run our operation from a storefront.”
“They run a multinational produce-supply operation.”
Operation (noun)
A surgical procedure.
“She had an operation to remove her appendix.”
Operation (noun)
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
Operation (noun)
A military Operation Desert Storm)
Operation (noun)
Effect produced; influence.
Surgery (noun)
A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
“Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.”
Surgery (noun)
The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
Surgery (noun)
A room or department where surgery is performed.
Surgery (noun)
A doctor’s office.
“I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.”
Surgery (noun)
Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
“Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.”
Surgery (noun)
A pre-packaged bankruptcy or “quick bankruptcy”.
Surgery (noun)
The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.