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Meaning of surgery

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  surgery
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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