Surgery vs. Procedure

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 .

Procedurenoun

A particular method for performing a task.

Procedurenoun

A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

Procedurenoun

(uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

Procedurenoun

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Procedurenoun

(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

Procedurenoun

(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

Procedurenoun

(medicine) A surgical operation.

Procedurenoun

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.

Procedurenoun

A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Procedurenoun

That which results; issue; product.

Procedurenoun

a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;

Procedurenoun

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

Procedurenoun

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Procedurenoun

a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

Procedurenoun

an established or official way of doing something

Procedurenoun

a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner

Procedurenoun

a surgical operation

Procedurenoun

another term for subroutine