surgery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
    • he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School
  2. noun a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
    • he read the warning in the doctor's surgery
  3. noun a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
    operating theatre; operating theater; OR; operating room.
    • great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
  4. noun a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
    surgical operation; surgical procedure; operation; surgical process.
    • they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available
    • he died while undergoing surgery

WordNet

Sur"ge*ry noun
Etymology
OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. . See Surgeon.
Definitions
  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.
  2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Webster 1913