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surgical procedure

 
Noun surgical procedure has 1 sense
  1. operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
    --1 is a kind of medical procedure
    --1 has parts:
     hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia; incision, section, surgical incision; suturing
    --1 has particulars:
     ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision; amputation; angioplasty; arthroplasty; arthroscopy; brain surgery; castration; cautery, cauterization, cauterisation; chemosurgery; craniotomy; cryosurgery; curettage, curettement; debridement; decortication; dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C; electrosurgery; enterostomy, enterotomy; enucleation; wrong-site surgery; evisceration; exenteration; fenestration; gastrectomy; gastroenterostomy; gastrostomy; heart surgery; hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy; hysterotomy; implantation; iridectomy; iridotomy; intestinal bypass; jejunostomy; major surgery; microsurgery; minor surgery; myotomy; myringectomy; myringoplasty; myringotomy; neurosurgery; orchiopexy; osteotomy; ostomy; palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP; phlebectomy; photocoagulation; plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty; polypectomy; resection; rhinotomy; rhizotomy; sex-change operation, transsexual surgery; Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation; sterilization, sterilisation; strabotomy; taxis; tracheostomy, tracheotomy; transplant, transplantation, organ transplant; trephination; tympanoplasty; uranoplasty; vasovasostomy; vivisection
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