Surgery
['sɜːdʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['sɝdʒəri]
Definition
(noun.) a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted; 'he read the warning in the doctor's surgery'.
(noun.) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; 'he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School'.
Typist: Shelley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
Inputed by Clinton
Examples
- Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- One of these he placed in his hall in the house at Kennington Road, and the other on the mantelpiece of the surgery at Lower Brixton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Like considerations would apply to railways, antiseptic surgery, or friction matches. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Bob,' said Mr. Allen, 'will you take my aunt into the surgery? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But soon surgery and medicine took advantage of the unknown rays for practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Darwin had studied medicine at Edinburgh, but found surgery distasteful. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Out of the knowledge of disease germs has grown the great era of antiseptic surgery, inaugurated by Sir Joseph Lister, about 1865. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Of medicine or surgery the poor thing knew nothing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The apparatus has proved invaluable in surgery and has become an accepted part of the equipment of modern surgery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was sitting alone in a bare little room, which communicated by a glazed door with a surgery. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The discovery of anaesthetics and their application in surgery and the practice of medicine, no doubt constitutes the leading invention of the century in this field. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I shall set up a surgery, he said. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Their surgery is not artistic. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Bob Sawyer stopped to hear no more; but darting from the surgery into the outer shop, cried in a stentorian voice, 'Ben, my boy, she's bolted! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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