Usually means: Medical intervention to treat injuries.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word surgery:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. surgery: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surgery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surgery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surgery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surgery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surgery, surgery, surgery: Wordnik
  7. surgery: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surgery: Wiktionary
  9. surgery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surgery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surgery: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surgery: Dictionary.com
  13. surgery: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Surgery (album), Surgery (band), Surgery (disambiguation), Surgery (journal), Surgery (mathematics), Surgery (politics), Surgery (short story), Surgery, The Surgery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Surgery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. surgery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. surgery: Rhymezone
  18. surgery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. surgery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Surgery: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. surgery: Free Dictionary
  22. surgery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surgery: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. surgery: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. surgery: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Surgery: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surgery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Surgery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Surgery: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  8. surgery: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  10. -surgery, surgery: Medical dictionary
  11. Surgery: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. surgery: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surgery: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (medicine, usually uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
noun:  (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
noun:  A room or department where surgery is performed.
noun:  (British) A doctor's office.
noun:  (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
noun:  (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
noun:  (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
noun:  (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.

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