Surgery vs. Procedure

Surgery vs. Procedure — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Surgery and Procedure

Surgerynoun

(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

Procedurenoun

A particular method for performing a task.

Surgerynoun

(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

Procedurenoun

A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

Surgerynoun

A room or department where surgery is performed.

Procedurenoun

(uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
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Surgerynoun

(British) A doctor's office.

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

Procedurenoun

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Surgerynoun

(British) 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.

Procedurenoun

(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

Surgerynoun

A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

Procedurenoun

(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

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Surgerynoun

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

Procedurenoun

(medicine) A surgical operation.

Surgerynoun

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

he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School

Procedurenoun

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

the procedure of obtaining a driver's licenseit was a process of trial and error

Surgerynoun

a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted;

he read the warning in the doctor's surgery

Procedurenoun

a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;

the operations in building a housecertain machine tool operations

Surgerynoun

a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations;

great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic

Procedurenoun

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Surgerynoun

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 availablehe died while undergoing surgery

Procedurenoun

a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings