a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles |
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations | surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) |
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted | the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | |