| SURGERY | • surgery n. (Medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body. • surgery n. (Medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures. • surgery n. A room or department where surgery is performed. |
| BIOSURGERY | • biosurgery n. (Medicine, surgery) The medicinal use of maggots to clean wounds and promote healing. • BIOSURGERY n. medical treatment with living agents e.g. maggots to clean wounds. |
| PRESURGERY | • presurgery adj. Before surgery. • PRESURGERY adj. before surgery. |
| CRYOSURGERY | • cryosurgery n. (Medicine) The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue. • CRYOSURGERY n. surgery using instruments at very low temperatures to cut and destroy tissue. |
| TELESURGERY | • telesurgery n. (Medicine) Surgery performed by robotic equipment which is monitored and controlled from a remote site. • TELESURGERY n. surgery carried out remotely. |
| CHEMOSURGERY | • chemosurgery n. (Medicine) The selective destruction of diseased or malignant tissue by means of chemical substances;… • CHEMOSURGERY n. the chemical removal of diseased or unwanted tissue. |
| MICROSURGERY | • microsurgery adj. Relating to techniques of surgery on very small or delicate parts of the body. • microsurgery n. Surgical procedures that are very small. • MICROSURGERY n. minute dissection or manipulation (as by a micromanipulator or laser beam) of living structures or tissue. |
| NEUROSURGERY | • neurosurgery n. (Neurology, surgery, uncountable) The surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral… • neurosurgery n. (Neurology, surgery, countable) Any surgical procedure performed on the brain; brain surgery. • NEUROSURGERY n. surgery of nervous structures (as nerves, the brain, or the spinal cord). |
| RADIOSURGERY | • radiosurgery n. (Surgery) The use of a directed beam of X-rays or other ionizing radiation to destroy diseased tissue. |
| PSYCHOSURGERY | • psychosurgery n. (Surgery) Surgery of the brain to treat or alleviate mental illness. • PSYCHOSURGERY n. cerebral surgery employed in treating psychic symptoms. |
| ELECTROSURGERY | • electrosurgery n. (Surgery) the application of high-frequency electric current to tissue as a means to cut, coagulate… • ELECTROSURGERY n. surgery by means of diathermy. |