surgery
surgery is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
- noun. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.
- noun. 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"
- noun. a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
"great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
- noun. a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
"he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
- noun. the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
"he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
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