surgical operation, n.
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2
operation surgery surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process
sample sentences
"they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available""he died while undergoing surgery"
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hyponym
catheterization, catheterisation
ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
amputation
angioplasty
arthroplasty
arthroscopy
brain surgery
castration
cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
chemosurgery
craniotomy
cryosurgery
curettage, curettement
debridement
decortication
dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C
electrosurgery
enterostomy, enterotomy
enucleation
wrong-site surgery
evisceration
exenteration
eye operation, eye surgery
fenestration
gastrectomy
gastroenterostomy
gastrostomy
heart surgery
hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy
hysterotomy
implantation
intestinal bypass
jejunostomy
major surgery
microsurgery
minor surgery
myotomy
myringectomy
myringoplasty
myringotomy
neurosurgery
orchiopexy
osteotomy
ostomy
palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP
phlebectomy
photocoagulation
plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty
polypectomy
resection
rhinotomy
rhizotomy
sex-change operation, transsexual surgery
Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation
sterilization, sterilisation
strabotomy
taxis
tracheostomy, tracheotomy
transplant, transplantation, organ transplant
trephination
tympanoplasty
uranoplasty
vasovasostomy
vivisection
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