Synset

the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
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sample sentences

"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

surgical surgical

semantic pointers

member of this domain (topic)

maxillofacial ligation operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process centesis drain landmark stoma graft, transplant amastia phlebothrombosis, venous thrombosis ligate extirpate enucleate exenterate decerebrate

hypernym

medical science