Autopsy vs Surgery - What's the difference?
autopsy | surgery |
A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
To perform an autopsy on.
To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.
(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
(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.
(British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery.
(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.
As nouns the difference between autopsy and surgery
is that autopsy is a dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death while surgery is (medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.As a verb autopsy
is to perform an autopsy on.autopsy
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Noun
(autopsies)Synonyms
* (dissection of a cadaver) necropsy, necrotomy; postmortem * (after the fact examination) postmortemUsage notes
* The term necropsy is usually used for non-human animals, with autopsy reserved for human beings.Verb
(en-verb)Anagrams
*surgery
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(wikipedia surgery)Noun
(surgeries)- Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.
- I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
- Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.