surgical procedure

In medicine, surgery (from the Greek  meaning "hand work") is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. Persons described as surgeons are commonly medical practitioners, but the term is also applied to dentists and veterinarians.The term surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian.
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Surgery /sur·gery/ 1. the branch of medicine that treats diseases, injuries, and deformities by manual or operative methods. 2. [more]Surgical procedure - Community and Resources

Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical process
(hypernym) medical procedure
(hyponym) ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
(part-meronym) hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia
(classification) surgery
(class) freeze