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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

... the reports of her many friends) an intrepid lady, [Footnote: If I remember rightly, some account is given of this palstric lady and her stern Pdo-gymnastics, in a clever book on household medicine and surgery under circumstances of inevitable seclusion from professional aid, written about the year 1820-22, by Mr. Haden, a surgeon of London.] living in the city of London (that is, technically the city, as opposed to Westminster, etc., Mary-le- bone, ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... natural means Requirement of ecclesiastical advice before undertaking medical treatment Charge of magic and Mohammedanism against men of science Effect of ecclesiastical opposition to medicine The doctrine of signatures The doctrine of exorcism Theological opposition to surgery Development of miracle and fetich cures Fashion in pious cures Medicinal properties of sacred places Theological argument in favour of miraculous ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... with instruments of the rudest description. He extemporised the greater part of them himself, out of the motley materials which chance threw in his way,—the pots and pans of the kitchen, and the phials and vessels of his master's surgery. It happened that a French ship was wrecked off the Land's End, and the surgeon escaped, bearing with him his case of instruments, amongst which was an old-fashioned glyster apparatus; this article he presented to Davy, with whom he had become acquainted. The ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

... your head stable-man—for the present. It was all by chance. I came into this room yesterday to get a book on veterinary surgery. I accidentally saw a plan. I have been a soldier. I knew that such a thing had no rightful place in this house.... I was coming across the lawn, when I looked into the window. ... It is not for me to judge you, sir. My duty lay in destroying those plans before ...

— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath

... temporarily occupies, opens the door, and speedily returns with the little traveling case in which the young physician keeps many important medicines, an assortment of ready liniment and lint, with the wonderful remedial agents known to modern surgery. ...

— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne

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