surgery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted

   I read the warning in the doctor's surgery.

2. 2
   noun

   the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

   They are professor of surgery at the medical school.

3. 3
   noun

   The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).

   Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

4. 4
   noun

   A room or department where surgery is performed.

   The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.

5. 5
   noun

   A doctor's office; a clinic.

   I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

6. 6
   noun

   A medical practitioner’s office hours.

   Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.

7. 7
   noun

   Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

   Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.

8. 8
   noun

   Drastic changes made to anything.

   The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós) Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancien…