sur|ger|y

sur|ger|y
sur|ger|y «SUR juhr ee», noun, plural -ger|ies.
1. the art and science of treating diseases, injuries, or deformities by operations and instruments: »

Malaria can be cured by medicine, but a ruptured appendix requires surgery.

2. the operating room or other area where surgical operations are performed.
3. the work performed by a surgeon.
4. Figurative: »

to save a tree by skillful surgery. Nonconformity had entered far too deeply into the nation's life to be eradicated by the severest surgery of law (H. W. Clark).

5. British. the office of a doctor or dentist.
╂[< Old French surgerie, or cirurgerie, earlier cirurgie, learned borrowing from Latin chīrūrgia < Greek cheirourgíā < cheirourgós sueon < cheír hand + érgon work]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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