Synonyms for surgery
ˈsɜr dʒə risur·ge·ry

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1. surgerynoun

   A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

   Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

   Synonyms:
   operation

2. surgerynoun

   A room or department where surgery is performed.

   I would discuss hospital policy to you more, but I’m wanted in surgery.

   Synonyms:
   operating theatre, operating room, theatre

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1. surgerynoun

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

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

   Synonyms:
   operating room, operating theater, surgical operation, surgical procedure, operation, surgical process, operating theatre

2. surgerynoun

   a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted

   "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"

   Synonyms:
   operating room, operating theater, surgical operation, surgical procedure, operation, surgical process, operating theatre

3. operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre, surgerynoun

   a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

   "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

   Synonyms:
   operating room, surgical operation, surgical process, operation, operating theater, surgical procedure, operating theatre

4. operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical processnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   mathematical operation, process, procedure, operating room, surgical operation, operating theatre, cognitive operation, performance, functioning, operating theater, operation, military operation, cognitive process, surgical procedure, mental process, mathematical process, surgical process

Matched Categories

1. • Hospital Room
   • Medical Science
   • Room

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1. surgerynoun

   Synonyms:
   aciurgy

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1. List of paraphrases for "surgery":

   surgical, chirurgie, surgeries, operation, surgeon, transaction, intervention

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1. Sarah Boston:

   I thought, ‘Well, I'll just go into my doctor and probably have surgery in the next week or so to get this out,’ if I see a dog with thyroid cancer, they'll come in and usually have surgery within one or two days.

2. Tanai Smith:

   I was bleeding internally, after the surgery my mom was told that when they open [SIC] me up, my ovaries was [SIC] black and that they had to give me a hysterectomy. After the surgery I went into septic shock causing me to be in ICU for a few weeks.

3. Neeraj Chopra:

   I was probably not 100% fit after the surgery I had, so the goal will be to be even better prepared than I was for this year's Games.

4. Hafez Abu Khousa in Gaza:

   It is like the consultant is with you in the same room, giving you an opinion so that the surgery can be perfect.

5. Matthew Schulman:

   Body parts are removed because of trauma and cancer, and there’s a whole field of reconstructive plastic surgery to rebuild these structures and restore normal function— the removal idea is something that no plastic surgeon is going to do, the danger with that is people are going to do what they want to do, and it forces them to go down a different route such as having these [procedures] done by non-medical professionals in settings that may not be appropriate.