Surgeryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɜː.d͡ʒə.ɹi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɝ.d͡ʒə.ɹi/

名詞

surgery (countable and uncountable, plural surgeries)

1. (medicine, usually uncountable) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

   Surgery is often necessary to prevent cancer from spreading.

   • 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times‎:

     When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

2. (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
3. A room or department where surgery is performed.
   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 51:

     The physician's proper place was in the library, not in the surgery.

4. (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.

   I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.

5. (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
   • 1972, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small:

     Surgery is from six to seven o’clock. If you wanted to bring a dog in, that would be your best time.

6. (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

   Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday.

7. (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
8. (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
9. (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
   • 2019, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 8.0: Build Cloud, Web, and Desktop Applications, page 716:

     The C# compiler evidently performs some major surgery on your code each time you use the await keyword.

同意語

• (procedure): operation, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
• (site of surgical operations): operating room, operating theatre, theatre, bright lights and cold steel (informal)
• (doctor's office): office (UK)

上位語

• medical speciality

下位語

派生語

参照

• Surgery (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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