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Surgery - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Surgery : (noun)
1: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury
by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at
the Harvard Medical School"
2: a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; "he read
the warning in the doctor's surgery"
3: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of
surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the
operating rooms aseptic" [syn: operating room, OR, operating
theater, operating theatre]
4: 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" [syn: operation, surgical operation, surgical
procedure, surgical process]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Surgery : \Sur"ge*ry\, n. [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF.
cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. ?. See Surgeon.]
1. 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.
2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external
diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted
for their cure.
2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his
knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and
wounds.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Surgery : Surgery: The word "surgery" has multiple meanings. It is the branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions which require or are amenable to operative procedures. Surgery is the
work done by a surgeon. By analogy, the work of an editor wielding his pen as a scalpel is s form of surgery. A surgery in England (and some other countries) is a physician's or dentist's office.
To define "surgery" merely as "an operation" (as one dictionary does) is rather radical surgery. An earlier entry to "surgery" in this dictionary was similarly mechanistic: "Surgery can involve
cutting, abrading, suturing, laser or otherwise physically changing body tissues and organs."
The word "surgery" took a path so tortuous as to conceal its origins. It began with the Greek "cheirourgia" which combined "cheir" (the hand) and "ergon" (work) and meant "handwork, work done with
the hands." The Greek "cheirourgia" was taken over by the Romans as "chirurgia" and was further transformed in France about in 1171 to "cirurgie." (In French, surgery is now "chirurgerie.") By 1387
Chaucer could write in The Canterbury Tales:
With us ther was a doctour of phisik;
In al this world ne was the noon hym lik,
To speke of phisik and of surgerye.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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