surgery

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noun

Plural noun:

surgeries

1.
(uncountable, usually)(medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A room or department where surgery is performed.
4.
(British, countable, uncountable)A doctor's office; a clinic.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
5.
(British, countable, uncountable)A medical practitioner’s office hours.
6.
(British, countable, uncountable)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.
7.
(countable, slang, uncountable)(finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
8.
(countable, uncountable)(topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
9.
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)(by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.

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office operationoperating roomoperating theatretheatrebright lights and cold steelprocedure operation, bright lights and cold steel (informal)doctor's office office

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία, from χείρ (hand) + ἔργον (work). chirurgy.