surgery
n 1: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury
by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at
the Harvard Medical School"
2: (British) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted;
"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
3: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of
surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the
operating rooms aseptic" [syn: {operating room}, {operating
theater}, {operating theatre}]
4: a therapeutic procedure with instruments 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" [syn: {operation}, {surgical
operation}, {surgical procedure}]