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surgery   (TTS Sound)

The noun surgery has 4 senses

• surgery -- (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School")


• surgery -- (a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery")


• operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre, surgery -- (a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic")


• 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")