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What is the noun for surgery?

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surgery
  1. (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
  2. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
  3. A room or department where surgery is performed.
  4. (Britain) A doctor's office.
  5. (Britain) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
  6. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
  7. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Nurses are currently caring for a teenage boy who is recovering from surgery to the tendons in his legs.”
      “The surgeon, with a face mask, then puts on a gown before the operation in the surgery.”
      “Debulking surgery left appreciable disease in the abdomen and a malignant pleural effusion.”
surgeon
  1. One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
  2. A surgeonfish.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “If there is any concern over the maintenance of ventilation, an endotracheal tube is placed by the surgeon via the laryngoscope.”
      “Her surgeon and trainer both said she would have to drop some 20 kilos in order to heal in time for the Olympics.”
      “The surgeon closes the oral mucosa and muscle layers using braided absorbable suture in a horizontal mattress fashion.”
surgicenter
  1. A medical facility where surgical procedures not requiring an overnight hospital stay are performed.
surgeonfish
  1. Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae, that have an erect spine near the tail
  2. Examples:
    1. “Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.”
      “Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.”
      “The great clouds of yellow black and white banner angelfish, brilliant blue fusiliers, yellow tangs and smart surgeonfish are gone.”
surgeoncy
  1. The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.
surgicalist
  1. (US) A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.
surgeoness
  1. (dated) A female surgeon.
surgeonry
  1. (obsolete) surgery
surgicenters
  1. plural of surgicenter
surgicalists
  1. plural of surgicalist
surgeonfishes
  1. plural of surgeonfish
surgeonesses
  1. plural of surgeoness
surgeonries
  1. plural of surgeonry
surgeoncies
  1. plural of surgeoncy
surgeons
  1. plural of surgeon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The tiger was in quarantine while surgeons undertook emergency surgery on its owner.”
      “Some surgeons impact the shell implant into the acetabulum, and other surgeons prefer to fixate the implant with screws.”
      “Many surgeons, who require precision in their tissue ablation, prefer the pulsed mode of operation.”
surgeries
  1. plural of surgery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All the control lymph nodes were removed as part of radical surgeries for malignant disease conditions and were negative for malignancy.”
      “For the last five years I have worked on and off as a medical receptionist at several surgeries in Wellington.”
      “Start by finding a list of practices near where you live, as surgeries have boundary limits and you need to make sure you're within their area.”
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