Surgery - Definition

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, surgery]
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, surgery, surgical operation,
surgical procedure, surgical process]