Surgery vs Presurgery - What's the difference?
surgery | presurgery |
(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.
Before surgery.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 1, author=Charles Isherwood, title=While Superego Sleeps, a Mind at Play, work=New York Times
, passage=But the nagging curiosity about what she might have, could have, perhaps should not have said inspired this playful hourlong exploration of the mind-body connection, in which Ms. Margolin performs five versions of the lost 12-minute presurgery performance. }}
As a noun surgery
is a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.As an adjective presurgery is
before 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 * telesurgerypresurgery
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