surgical operation
Noun
Meaning
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available
he died while undergoing surgery
A slave bore an identification mark, removable only by a surgical operation, that later consisted of his owner's name tattooed or branded on the arm.
In keeping with concerns for his family's honour, Patel allowed Vithalbhai to go in his place. citation In 1909, Patel's wife Jhaverba was hospitalised in Bombay (now Mumbai ) to undergo a major surgical operation for cancer.
United States Circumcision of adults who grant personal informed consent for the surgical operation is legal.