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How to pronounce surgery in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, or
Type of hospital room
Type Words
Synonyms operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
Type of medical procedure
Has types catheterization, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, d and c, debridement, decortication, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, evisceration, excision, exenteration, extirpation, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, haemorrhoidectomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, taxis, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, catheterisation, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, organ transplant, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, polypectomy, ppp, purse-string operation, reconstructive surgery, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, shirodkar's operation, sterilisation, sterilization, strabotomy, ablation, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, transsexual surgery, trephination, tympanoplasty, uppp, uranoplasty, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection, wrong-site surgery, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy
Derivation surgical


he died while undergoing surgery.
Type Words
Type of room


he read the warning in the doctor's surgery.
Type Words
Type of medical science
Derivation surgical


he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

Examples of surgery

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She says he also has a heart disorder and will need a second open-heart surgery.
From the dailyherald.com
As expected, CC Sabathia underwent arthroscopic knee surgery today in Manhattan.
From the newsday.com
Bigby, who started 11 of 13 games in 2009, had ankle surgery earlier this month.
From the thenewstribune.com
An adaptive wavefront modulation system and method for refractive laser surgery.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Tait, 73, has missed the entire regular season after undergoing cardiac surgery.
From the sacbee.com
In college, Ackley played mostly outfield and then first base after arm surgery.
From the thenewstribune.com
Miller had recently undergone extensive heart surgery at Keesler Air Force Base.
From the thenewstribune.com
Diaz returned from thumb surgery and struck out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.
From the washingtontimes.com
He was limited to 48 games in 2010 and required season-ending abdominal surgery.
From the usatoday.com
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  • The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
  • A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
  • Operating room: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
  • Operation: 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"
  • Surgery (from the Greek: u03C7u03B5u03B9u03C1u03BFu03C5u03C1u03B3u03B9u03BAu03AE cheirourgiku0113 (composed of u03C7u03B5u03AFu03C1, "hand", and u1F14u03C1u03B3u03BFu03BD, "work"), via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured a
  • Surgery is the third album by the Los Angeles based neo-psychedelic rock band, the Warlocks. It was released by major label, Mute Records in 2005, and was produced by the high profile, Tom Rothrock. ...
  • A political surgery (in British politics) or clinic is a term used to describe a series of one-to-one meetings a Member of Parliament (MP) may have with his or her constituents, at which a constituent may raise issues of local concern and seek the intervention of their MP. ...
  • A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures; A room or department where surgery is performed; A doctor's consulting room; Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an ...
  • Operation to remove or repair a part of the body, or to find out if disease is present.