Surgery

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Surgery \Sur"ge*ry\ (s[^u]r"j[~e]r*[y^]), n. [OE. surgenrie,
     surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr.
     ?. See {Surgeon}.]
     1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of
        medical science which treats of manual operations for the
        healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch


        of medical science which has for its object the cure of
        local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures,
        tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines
        and constitutional treatment.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  surgery
       n 1: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury
            by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at
            the Harvard Medical School"
       2: a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read
          the warning in the doctor's surgery"
       3: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of
          surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the
          operating rooms aseptic" [syn: {operating room}, {OR}, {operating
          theater}, {operating theatre}]
       4: 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" [syn: {operation}, {surgical operation}, {surgical
          procedure}, {surgical process}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "surgery":
     X ray, abscission, amputation, antiseptic surgery, aseptic surgery,
     blood bank, bloodless surgery, butchering, cauterization, cautery,
     charity ward, chiroplasty, chopping, cleavage, clinic,
     consultation room, cryosurgery, cutting, delivery room,
     dental surgery, dichotomy, dispensary, electrocautery,
     electrolysis, electrolyzation, electroresection, electrosurgery,
     emergency, enucleation, examining room, excision, fever ward,
     fission, general surgery, heart surgery, hospital room,
     intensive care, isolation, labor room, laboratory, laceration,
     laser surgery, major surgery, maternity ward, minor surgery,
     mutilation, neurosurgery, nursery, open-heart surgery,
     operating room, operation, operative surgery, oral surgery,
     organ transplantation, orthopedic surgery, pharmacy,
     plastic surgery, prison ward, private room, prosthetics,
     radiosurgery, reconstructive surgery, recovery room, rending,
     reparative surgery, resection, ripping, scission, section,
     semi-private room, severance, slashing, slicing, splitting,
     surgical diathermy, surgical treatment, tearing, therapy,
     thoracic surgery, treatment room, urological surgery,
     veterinary surgery, ward
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external 
  diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted 
  for their cure. 
       2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his 
  knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and 
  wounds.