surgery

英['sɜːdʒ(ə)rɪ] 美['sɝdʒəri]

1. the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures;

"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"

2. a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted;

"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"

3. a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations;

"great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

4. 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"