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    Surgery

    Definitions

    1 | noun | the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures 2 | noun | a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted 3 | noun | a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations 4 | noun | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

    Pronunciation

    s'erjeree (IPA: sˈɝdʒɝi)

    Hyphenation

    sur-ger-y (7 letters | 3 syllables)

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    Overall typical frequency

    written: 3437th most common (1 in 35714 words) ( > 99% noun)

    spoken: 2611th most common (1 in 58824 words)

    (includes some inflected forms)

    Word frequency history

    Inflected form

    surgeries

    Synonyms

    operating room | operating theater | operating theatre | OR | operation | surgical operation | surgical procedure | surgical process (total: 8)

    Narrower terms

    ablation | amputation | anaplasty | angioplasty | arthroplasty | arthroscopy | brain surgery | catheterisation | catheterization | cauterisation | cauterization | cautery | chemosurgery | craniotomy | cryosurgery | ... (total: 86)

    Broader terms

    medical science | room | hospital room | medical procedure (total: 4)

    Rhymes

    neurosurgery | perjury (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Lexically close words

    forgery | Margery

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Phrases

    accident surgery | cataract surgery | closed-heart surgery | coronary bypass surgery | cosmetic surgery | cyclodestructive surgery | dental surgery | extracapsular surgery | filtration surgery | intracapsular surgery | ... (total: 15)

    Translations

    Mandarin Chinese: | 外科學 (noun) Hindi: | शल्यचिकित्सा (noun) Arabic: | جِراحَة (noun) Spanish: | operación (medicine) | cirugía (medicine) French: | opération (medicine) | intervention (medicine) | intervention chirurgicale (medicine) | chirurgie (medicine)

    Other notable uses

    surgery.net | surgery.org | surgery.biz

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Doctor's office, to Brits | Face-lift, e.g. (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    11 (International English) | 11 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

    (???) 787-4379

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