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Surgery

noun

The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.

A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted.

A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations. Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, operating theatre, OR.

A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body. Synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process. "He died while undergoing surgery"

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"Surgery" Quotes from Famous Books

... if he could make it go at his profession that would be the thing. It would be better than all the sheep on Wyoming's dusty hills. A little surgery somewhere, with its enameled table and white fittings, and automobiles coming and going all day, and Agnes to look in at evening——. Yes, that ...

— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... and wondrous devices in splints; he halted us by hanging beds of weird shape and cots that swung on pulleys; he descanted on wounds to flesh and bone and brain, of lives snatched from the grip of Death by the marvels of up-to-date surgery, and as I listened to his pleasant voice I sensed much of the grim wonders he left untold. We visited X-ray rooms and operating theatre against whose walls were glass cases filled with a multitudinous ...

— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol

... gigantic black named Bouckman, and subsequently by three others, were continuing their course of butchery and devastation. Toussaint joined them after the escape of the overseer, and quickly gained an influence over them, largely from his knowledge of medicinal plants and a degree of skill in surgery. This influence enabled him to put himself at their head and to mitigate the ferocity of their actions. His ascendency was due not only to his knowledge, but also to his valor, and from his courage in opening a ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III • Charles Morris

... as I write how rare are the really good medical biographies. The autobiographies are better. Ambrose Pare's sketches of his own life, which was both eventful and varied, are scattered through his treatise on surgery, and he does not gain added interest in the hands of Malgaigne. Our own Sims's book about himself is worth reading, but is too realistic for the library table, yet what a strangely valuable story it is of the struggle ...

— Doctor and Patient • S. Weir Mitchell

... replied with an affectation of conceit. "Of course if you live in Lebanon you need surgery to make you feel ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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