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Amputation vs Surgery - What's the difference?

amputation | surgery |

As nouns the difference between amputation and surgery

is that amputation is amputation while surgery is (medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

amputation

English

(wikipedia amputation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
  • the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

    • See also

    * acrotomophilia * apotemnophilia * apotemnophobia

    surgery

    English

    (wikipedia surgery)

    Noun

    (surgeries)
  • (medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
    • Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
  • (senseid)(medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
  • A room or department where surgery is performed.
  • *2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 51:
  • *:The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery .
  • (British) A doctor's consulting room.
    • I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
  • (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
    • Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.
  • (finance, bankruptcy, slang) 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (procedure) operation * (room or department) operating room, operating theatre, theatre

    Derived terms

    * meatball surgery * remote surgery * surgeon * surgical * telesurgery