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surgery

Operation

Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
surgery
1. Substantiv:
2. [1] chirurgischer Eingriff, Operation
3. [2] (britisch) Arztpraxis
4. [3] Operationssaal
Englisch > Englisch
surgery
1. subst. (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. subst. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. subst. A room or department where surgery is performed.
4. subst. (British) A doctor's office.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
5. subst. (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. subst. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
7. subst. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
Deutsch > Englisch
Operation
1. n-f. (surgery military, mathematics computer science) operation