Operation vs. Surgery

Operationnoun

The method by which a device performs its function.

Operationnoun

The method or practice by which actions are done.

Operationnoun

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

Operationnoun

A planned undertaking.

Operationnoun

A business or organization.

Operationnoun

(medicine) A surgical procedure.

Operationnoun

a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

Operationnoun

(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)

Operationnoun

(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

Operationnoun

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

Operationnoun

The method of working; mode of action.

Operationnoun

That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.

Operationnoun

Effect produced; influence.

Operationnoun

Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities or mathematical objects, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.

Operationnoun

Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.

Operationnoun

a business especially one run on a large scale;

Operationnoun

a planned activity involving many people performing various actions;

Operationnoun

a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;

Operationnoun

the state of being in effect or being operative;

Operationnoun

a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;

Operationnoun

activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);

Operationnoun

(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);

Operationnoun

process or manner of functioning or operating;

Operationnoun

(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods;

Operationnoun

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

Operationnoun

the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);

Surgerynoun

(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

Surgerynoun

(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

Surgerynoun

A room or department where surgery is performed.

Surgerynoun

(British) A doctor's office.

Surgerynoun

(British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

Surgerynoun

A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".

Surgerynoun

(topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.

Surgerynoun

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.

Surgerynoun

A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Surgerynoun

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

Surgerynoun

a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted;

Surgerynoun

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

Surgerynoun

a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;

Surgery

Surgery is a medical or dental specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function, appearance, or to repair unwanted ruptured areas. The act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply .