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: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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