Surgery vs Postsurgically - What's the difference?
surgery | postsurgically |
(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.
Relating to the period following surgery.
As a noun surgery
is (medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.As an adverb postsurgically is
relating to the period following surgery.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.
Synonyms
* (procedure) operation * (room or department) operating room, operating theatre, theatreDerived terms
* meatball surgery * remote surgery * surgeon * surgical * telesurgerypostsurgically
English
Adverb
(-)- The patient felt better postsurgically .
