surgery
pronunciation
How to pronounce surgery in British English:
UK [ˈsɜːdʒəri]
How to pronounce surgery in American English:
US [ˈsɜːrdʒəri]
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- Noun:
- the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
- a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
- a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Word Origin
- surgery (n.)
- c. 1300, sirgirie, "medical treatment of an operative nature, such as cutting-operations, setting of fractures, etc.," from Old French surgerie, surgeure, contraction of serurgerie, from Late Latin chirurgia (see surgeon).
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Example
- 1. That 's why we have plastic surgery !
- 2. A famous professor of surgery died and went to heaven .
- 3. If you 're interested in bariatric surgery , talk to your doctor .
- 4. There are always several in train stations , and at least one in every doctors surgery .
- 5. Who has the most plastic surgery ?