Surgery vs Reaction - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between surgery and reaction

is that surgery is (medicine) a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body while reaction is .

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(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.

* (procedure) operation * (room or department) operating room, operating theatre, theatre

* meatball surgery * remote surgery * surgeon * surgical * telesurgery

(en noun)

An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event

The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction .

You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction ?

When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic reaction .

(chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition

In this reaction , the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.

* English words suffixed with -tion