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Surgery vs Clinic - What's the difference?

surgery | clinic |

As nouns the difference between surgery and clinic

is that surgery is a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body while clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.

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

    clinic

    English

    (wikipedia clinic)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  • A group practice of several physicians.
  • A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  • A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  • (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  • (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  • (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
    • (Hook)
  • (medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinic

    Related terms

    * clinal * cline

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