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.

Noun

A particular method for performing a task.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}

A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

(label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

* (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)

Gracious procedures .

(label) That which results; issue; product.

(Bacon)

(label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

(label) A surgical operation.