surgery

noun surgeries

1. uncountable, usually The act or process of medical intervention involving incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure). Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

   Similar: operation, bright lights and cold steel

2. countable, uncountable The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

   Similar: operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel

3. countable, uncountable A room or department where surgery is performed. The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.
4. UK, countable, uncountable A doctor's office; a clinic. I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

   Similar: office

5. UK, countable, uncountable A medical practitioner’s office hours. Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.
6. UK, countable, uncountable Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic. Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
7. countable, slang, uncountable A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
8. countable, uncountable The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
9. broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Drastic changes made to anything. The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.