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surgery

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  • Royaume-Uni//ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi//
  • États-Unis//ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi//

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

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  1. 1

    The act or process of medical intervention involving 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.

    When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

  2. 2

    The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

  3. 3

    A room or department where surgery is performed.

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

  4. 4

    A doctor's office; a clinic.

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

  5. 5

    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.

  6. 6

    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.

  7. 7

    argotA pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

  8. 8

    The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

  9. 9

    figuréDrastic changes made to anything.

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

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *gʰéhr̥ Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *wérgon 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) Ancient Greek χειρουργέω (kheirourgéō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek χειρουργίᾱ̆ (kheirourgíā̆)bor. Latin chīrūrgiader. Old French surgie Old French surgeriebor. Middle English surgerie English surgery From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία (kheirourgía), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgy.

Formes

pluriel
surgeries
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