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noun
A procedure in which one or more incisions are made into the body in order to repair damage or remove diseased tissue; an operation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical process
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: medical procedure
Narrower terms: catheterization, catheterisation, ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, cautery, cauterization, cauterisation, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, debridement, decortication, dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, wrong-site surgery, evisceration, exenteration, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty, polypectomy, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, transsexual surgery, Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation, sterilization, sterilisation, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, organ transplant, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection
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