Surgical operation

Introduction: Surgical operation

Description of Surgical operation

Surgical operation: 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".
Source: WordNet 2.1

Surgical operation: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Surgical operation:

• Surgical
• Operation
• Medical
• Procedure
• Incision
• Repair
• Damage
• Arrest
• Body
• Body symptoms (5672 causes)

Terms associated with Surgical operation:

Terms Similar to Surgical operation:

• operation
• surgery
• surgical procedure
• surgical process

Source - WordNet 2.1

More specific terms for Surgical operation:

• 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

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Surgical operation

• medical procedure

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Surgical operation

The following list attempts to classify Surgical operation into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• medical procedure
• procedure,process
• activity
• act,human action,human activity

Source: WordNet 2.1

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