Le mot anglais du jour

surgery

chirurgie

Définitions

anglais > français
surgery
1. n. (Chir) Chirurgie.
2. n. (Chir) Opération chirurgicale.
anglais > anglais
surgery
1. n. (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
2. n. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. n. A room or department where surgery is performed.
4. n. (British) A doctor's office.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
5. n. (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
6. n. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
7. n. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
français > anglais
chirurgie
1. n-f. (medicine) surgery, medical operation
2. n-f. surgery (the branch of medicine)