| brain surgery | any surgical procedure involving the brain |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
| wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
eye operation
eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
face lift
facelift
lift face lifting
cosmetic surgery
rhytidectomy
rhytidoplasty
nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
| heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
| closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
| open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
coronary bypass
coronary bypass surgery
coronary artery bypass graft
CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
| port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
| minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions |
| cataract surgery | eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant |
| intracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which the entire lens is removed |
| extracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed, the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant |
| cyclodestructive surgery | an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser |
| filtration surgery | eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues, a treatment for glaucoma |
| laser trabecular surgery | eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor |
| major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
| minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
plastic surgery
reconstructive surgery
anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
sexhange operation
transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
| tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
operating room
OR
operating theater
operating theatre
surgery | a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations, great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic |
| surgery | a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted, he read the warning in the doctor's surgery |
| thoracic aorta | a branch of the descending aorta, divides into the iliac arteries |
thoracic vein
vena thoracica | veins that drain the thoracic walls |
| thoracic duct | the major duct of the lymphatic system |
chest cavity
thoracic cavity | the cavity in the vertebrate body enclosed by the ribs between the diaphragm and the neck and containing the lungs and heart |
| thoracic nerve | any of twelve pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the thoracic region of the spinal cord |
thoracic vertebra
dorsal vertebra | one of vertebrae in the human vertebral column, thoracic vertebrae extend from the seventh cervical vertebra down to the first lumbar vertebra |
| dental surgery | the branch of dentistry involving surgical procedures |
| surgery | the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures, he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School |
| thoracic medicine | the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest |
traumatology
accident surgery | the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents |
Doctor of Dental Surgery
DDS | a doctor's degree in dental surgery |
| thoracic actinomycosis | a serious form of actinomycosis that affects the chest |
| thoracic outlet syndrome | tingling sensations in the fingers, caused by compression on a nerve supplying the arm |
pectoral
thoracic | of or relating to the chest or thorax, pectoral organ |