| 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 |
| resection | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ |
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 |
transurethral resection of the prostate
TURP | removal of significant amounts of prostate tissue (as in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia) |
| 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 |
root cellar
cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
| surgery | a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted, he read the warning in the doctor's surgery |
root
tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root
dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root
ventral horn
anterior root
anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
eigenvalue
eigenvalue of a matrix
eigenvalue of a square matrix
characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
| 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 |
traumatology
accident surgery | the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
etymon
root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
Doctor of Dental Surgery
DDS | a doctor's degree in dental surgery |
| root vegetable | any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers |
celeriac
celery root | thickened edible aromatic root of a variety of celery plant |
| chicory chicory root | root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee |
taro
taro root
cocoyam
dasheen
edda | tropical starchy tuberous root |
| root beer float | an iceream soda made with ice cream floating in root beer |
| root beer | carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs |
solution
root | the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation |
beginning
origin
root
rootage
source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
ancestor
ascendant
ascendent
antecedent
root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
blue cohosh
blueberry root
papooseroot
papoose root
squawroot
squaw root
Caulophyllum thalictrioides
Caulophyllum thalictroides | tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally |
goldenseal
golden seal
yellow root
turmeric root
Hydrastis Canadensis | perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves |
| horseradish horseradish root | the root of the horseradish plant, it is grated or ground and used for seasoning |