surgery
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- After the car accident, she had to undergo surgery to repair her broken leg.
- undergo surgery
- breast surgery
- surgery patients
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Watch on YouTubeIt's no undoing the surgeries and the medication.
- It's no undoing the surgeries and the medication.
- Yep, one year I had three surgeries from broken screws.
- After that, before that surgery, she could barely speak.
- And when she did finally see him after surgery, he was changed.
- And then when I first woke up after surgery, I was super drugged up.
- He's coming off season ending Achilles surgery at his age.
- I think today he's had three hip surgeries, a bunch of other stuff.
- So as soon as I had the surgery, they did a biopsy.
- You're not against transgender surgery or transition surgery for adults, Correct.
- If you're going to have knee surgery, make sure you do your, your rehab.
- You've had these different surgeries to make you look more Korean.
Examples
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I had emergency bypass surgery last year.
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And so he had surgery basically to repair that.
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And when she did finally see him after surgery, he was changed.
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And he went through a huge surgery yesterday morning.
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You were in surgery for 3 hours.
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So as soon as I had the surgery, they did a biopsy.
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The patients remained awake during the surgery and reported the anesthetic effect.
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Your daughter's out of surgery and she's in the recovery room now, okay?
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Then, in my late 30s, I had a surgery to remove my appendix.
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Nasal packs were removed one day after the surgery, and the patient was discharged in stable condition.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
295
3.7
A surgery where a doctor cuts the body to fix a problem
23
4.3
A medical operation that uses cuts to treat disease or injury
3
3.0
A medical treatment where a doctor makes a cut to fix, remove, or replace a part of the body
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4.6
An operation where a surgeon cuts the body to fix or remove a problem
Compounds
- Specialized
93
3.6
Operations that repair body parts or change them to improve looks
- Specialized
19
4.0
A serious operation on the body that doctors do while you are asleep and that has more risk
- Specialized
17
4.4
An operation where doctors open the chest to operate on the heart
- Specialized
16
3.9
An operation that fixes body parts so they look and work better after injury or disease
- Specialized
7
3.6
A simple operation that does not need a general anaesthetic and lets you go home the same day
- Specialized
2
3.7
An operation to remove the cloudy lens of the eye and replace it with an artificial lens to restore vision
- Specialized
1
4.2
An operation using a healthy blood vessel to go around a blocked artery in the heart and restore blood flow
- Archaic
1
6.6
Operations and hormone treatment that change a person's body so it looks more like a man or a woman
- Specialized
1
4.4
A degree dentists receive after dental school that lets them operate on teeth
- Informal
1
8.4
A quick, rough way of fixing something so it works but does not look neat
- Specialized
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
- Specialized
An operation that destroys part of the eye that makes fluid to lower eye pressure
- Archaic
An old job where people who cut hair also do small operations and pull teeth
- Specialized
A cataract operation that removes the front of the lens and keeps the back capsule to hold an artificial lens
- Specialized
A surgery that makes a small opening in the eye to let fluid drain and lower eye pressure
- Specialized
Surgery using a laser to make tiny burns in the eye to help fluid drain and lower eye pressure
- Specialized
An operation using small tools and a camera to bypass blocked blood vessels while the heart beats
- Archaic
An eye operation that removes the whole lens and its thin outer layer
- Specialized
An operation on the heart using small cuts and cameras to bypass blocked arteries while a machine keeps blood moving
- Specialized
An operation to remove or change the testicles as part of a gender transition
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Surgery comes from Greek words cheir 'hand' and ergon 'work'. So a surgery is an 'operation' — the 'hand work' doctors do to cut or repair the body.