Implant vs Surgery - What's the difference?
implant | surgery |
To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
To insert (something) surgically into the body.
Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly (breast implant)s.
(travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
(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 a verb implant
is .As a noun surgery is
(medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.implant
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (fix firmly or set securely or deeply ): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root * (insert (something) surgically into the body''): graft (''from another part of the body )Derived terms
* implantableNoun
(wikipedia implant) (en noun)Derived terms
* (breast implant) (l)surgery
English
(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.