English noun: surgery |
| 1. | surgery (cognition) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures |
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| Samples | He is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School.
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| Broader (hypernym) | medical science |
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| Domain category members | amastia, centesis, decerebrate, drain, enucleate, exenterate, extirpate, graft, landmark, ligate, ligation, maxillofacial, operation, phlebothrombosis, stoma, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, transplant, venous thrombosis |
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| 2. | surgery (artifact) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted |
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| Samples | He read the warning in the doctor's surgery.
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| Broader (hypernym) | room |
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| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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| 3. | surgery (artifact) a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations |
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| Samples | Great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic.
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| Synonyms | operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR |
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| Broader (hypernym) | hospital room |
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| 4. | surgery (act) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
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| Samples | They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available.
He died while undergoing surgery.
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| Synonyms | operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| Broader (hypernym) | medical procedure |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ablation, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, catheterisation, catheterization, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, D and C, debridement, decortication, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, evisceration, excision, exenteration, extirpation, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, haemorrhoidectomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, organ transplant, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, polypectomy, PPP, purse-string operation, reconstructive surgery, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, Shirodkar's operation, sterilisation, sterilization, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, transsexual surgery, trephination, tympanoplasty, UPPP, uranoplasty, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection, wrong-site surgery |
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| Part holonym | haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis, incision, section, surgical incision, suturing |
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| Domain category | surgery |
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| Domain category members | ablate, decorticate, freeze, hypophysectomise, hypophysectomize, suction, trepan |
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