surgery

Definitions

• (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
• (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
• A room or department where surgery is performed.
• (British) A doctor's office.
• (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
• (finance) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
• (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.