accident surgery
- noun
- /ˈæksɪdənt ˈsɜrdʒəri/
- UK
:
cirugía de accidentes
- After the car crash, he underwent accident surgery to repair his broken bones.
And, and people who like me who you know, you exercise regularly and then on my case for an accident surgery, I had to stop exercising.
- And, and people who like me who you know, you exercise regularly and then on my case for an accident surgery, I had to stop exercising.
Examples
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The doctor explained that accident surgery is crucial for saving lives in emergency situations.
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The hospital has a team that specializes in accident surgery to treat patients with serious injuries.
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And, and people who like me who you know, you exercise regularly and then on my case for an accident surgery, I had to stop exercising.
Synonyms
A part of medicine that treats serious injuries from accidents
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'surgery for injuries caused by accidents' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'accident' (unforeseen injury-causing event) with 'surgery' (surgical medical practice). This straightforward noun‑noun composition follows common semantic modification patterns found cross‑linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term accident surgery comes from the literal idea of surgery after an accident. Imagine someone rushed from a crash into the operating room to have broken bones and wounds fixed, so the phrase means 'surgical treatment of injuries from accidents'.
