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How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgery, operation
Categories: medical procedure
Within this category: ablation, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, debridement, decortication, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enucleation, evisceration, exenteration, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, iridectomy, iridotomy, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, polypectomy, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, Shirodkar's operation, sterilization, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, transplant, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection, wrong-site surgery
