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Definition: Surgical Operation |
Surgical OperationNoun1. A therapeutic procedure with instruments 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Surgical OperationSynonyms: operation (n), surgery (n), surgical procedure (n), surgical process (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Surgical Operation |
| English words defined with "surgical operation": colostomy ♦ enterostomy, enterotomy ♦ general anaesthesia, general anesthesia ♦ intestinal bypass ♦ operable, operating table, operative ♦ postoperative, preoperative ♦ strabotomy ♦ To go through, tracheostomy, tracheotomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "surgical operation": Abdomen, Acute, active implantable electromedical device, active implantable electromedical equipment ♦ Intraoperative Period ♦ Monitoring, Intraoperative ♦ Postoperative Period ♦ trepanation. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Professor Wise, performing a surgical operation in Congress Hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "surgical operation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | operasie (operation, surgical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 手" (operation, surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | operation (operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | operatie (operation), ingreep (operation), bewerking (adaptation, adjustment, cultivation, operation, process, tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | operacio (operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | skurðviðgerð (operation), tiltak (enterprise, operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | opération chirurgicale (surgery), opération, intervention chirurgicale (surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Operation (job, operation, surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembedahan (dissection, surgery), bedel, bedah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 手" , 切開手" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅじゅつ (subject and predicate), せっかいしゅじゅつ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | operashon (operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgicalsay operationay operação (agency, run). (various references) operation (operation, surgery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curatio, curationis, curationum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: conspiratorial, ultraprecision. | |
-4 letters: cartilaginous, coplanarities, corporalities, granularities, narratologies, oracularities, parasitologic, particularise, prosecutorial. | |
-5 letters: angularities, capitularies, coagulations, correlations, corrugations, craniologies, iconolatries, incorporates, irresolution, organoleptic, percolations, perorational, pertinacious, proconsulate, procreations, procurations, proletarians, proteinurias, replications, speciational, supercoiling, supercooling, superorganic, unapologetic. | |
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