operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process




a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed 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"

Type of:
  • medical procedure

Types:
  • 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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