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Surgery and Procedure Definitions

Surgery

The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by the use of instruments.

Procedure

A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something
Standard procedure.

Surgery

Treatment based on such medicine, typically involving the removal or replacement of diseased tissue by cutting
The athlete had surgery on his knee.

Procedure

A series of steps taken to accomplish an end
A medical procedure.
Evacuation procedures.

Surgery

A procedure that is part of this treatment; an operation
The doctor performed three surgeries this morning.

Procedure

(Computers) A set of instructions that performs a specific task; a subroutine or function.
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Surgery

An operating room or a laboratory of a surgeon or of a hospital's surgical staff
How long has the patient been in surgery?.

Procedure

A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government.

Surgery

A physician's, dentist's, or veterinarian's office.

Procedure

(Law) The set of rules under which litigation is conducted, especially in contrast to the set of substantive legal principles that determine the merits of legal controversies and disputes.

Surgery

The period during which a physician, dentist, or veterinarian consults with or treats patients in the office.

Procedure

A particular method for performing a task.
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Surgery

(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

Procedure

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

Surgery

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

Procedure

(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.

Surgery

A room or department where surgery is performed.

Procedure

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
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Surgery

(British) A doctor's office.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

Procedure

(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

Surgery

(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.

Procedure

(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.

Surgery

A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

Procedure

(medicine) A surgical operation.

Surgery

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

Procedure

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

Surgery

Drastic changes made to anything.

Procedure

A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Surgery

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Procedure

That which results; issue; product.

Surgery

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Procedure

A particular course of action intended to achieve a result;
The procedure of obtaining a driver's license
It was a process of trial and error

Surgery

The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

Procedure

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 house
Certain machine tool operations

Surgery

A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Procedure

A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Surgery

The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures;
He is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School

Procedure

A mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

Surgery

A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted;
He read the warning in the doctor's surgery

Surgery

A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations;
Great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic

Surgery

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

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