minor surgery
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈmaɪnər ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- Specialized
:
cirugía menor
- After the doctor explained the procedure, I felt relieved to know it was just minor surgery that would allow me to go home the same day.
- undergo minor surgery
- perform minor surgery
- need minor surgery
So we do Ecgs, echocardiograms, we do minor surgeries, TRTHRT.
- So we do Ecgs, echocardiograms, we do minor surgeries, TRTHRT.
- But my mother, my mother once had a a minor surgery.
Examples
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Minor surgery didn't seem a terribly pleasant prospect, but nothing to be terrified about.
Fiction book (2000) -
Admitted to the hospital for some minor surgery on her ear, the doctors belatedly diagnosed a rare blood disease for which there was no known cure.
Fiction book (1994) -
I had minor surgery a few years back.
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Recently, I had a friend whose child needed some minor surgery.
Blog text (26) -
This was minor surgery, and no one had considered any real risk would apply to me.
Blog text (16) -
She's having surgery, but just minor surgery.
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The port in Mike's shoulder will be there another six months and will require minor surgery to remove.
Blog text (26) -
An employee was referred to OH two weeks after minor surgery, following GP advice that they would not be able to return to work for eight weeks.
Academic text (2014) -
She said she's having some minor surgery.
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You see, we had, all of us, been anticipating a minor surgery—which this, in the scheme of things, still is.
Blog text (2)
Antonyms
- Specialized
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4.0
A serious operation on the body that doctors do while you are asleep and that has more risk
How Serious
- Specialized
12
4.0
- Specialized
4
3.6
- Specialized
41
4.1
61
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'minor surgery' is transparently built from 'minor' (not serious/slight) + 'surgery' (a medical operation), so its meaning as a simple, less serious operation is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern in medical vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows both words would reliably understand the phrase.
Etymology
Minor surgery puts together minor (meaning small or simple) and surgery (a medical operation). It gives the picture of a small, quick operation often done without making the patient fully asleep and with a short recovery, so it means 'a simple, low-risk operation'.