surgery
/ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/ sustantivo B1En español: operación, cirugía, quirófano, pabellón
- 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.
- The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- Drastic changes made to anything.
Plural surgeries
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The swiftest surgery is the least painful.
His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away.
One of these he placed in his hall in the house at Kennington Road, and the other on the mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton.
Barnicot was due at his surgery at twelve o’clock, and you can imagine his amazement when, on arriving there, he found that the window had been opened in the night and that the broken pieces of his second bust were strewn all over the room.
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