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surgery vs operation

operation vs surgery

surgery and operation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
surgery Yes No No No
operation Yes No No No
As nouns, surgery and operation are synonyms defined as:
  • surgery and operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Other synonyms of surgery include surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process.
surgery (noun) operation (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
a business especially one run on a large scale
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
process or manner of functioning or operating
the state of being in effect or being operative
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