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 |
film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
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 |
plastic art | the arts of shaping or modeling, carving and sculpture |
plastic bag | a bag made of thin plastic material |
plastic bomb | a bomb made of plastic explosive |
plastic explosive plastique | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy |
plastic laminate | a laminate made by bonding plastic layers |
plastic wrap | wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic |
surgery | a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted, he read the warning in the doctor's surgery |
artery of the penis bulb arteria bulbi penis | a branch of the internal pudendal artery of males that supplies the bulb of the penis |
glans | a small rounded structure, especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris |
glans clitoridis | small mass of erectile tissue at the end of the body of the clitoris |
glans penis | the conical mass of erectile tissue that forms the head of the penis |
vena bulbi penis | vein of the head of the penis, tributary of the internal pudendal vein that drains the perineum |
vein of penis | a vein serving the penis |
venae dorsales penis superficiales | superficial dorsal veins of the penis, paired tributaries of the external pudendal veins on each side |
venae dorsales penis profunda | deep dorsal vein of the penis, tributary of the prostatic plexus |
vena profunda penis | deep vein of the penis, enters the prostatic plexus |
penis phallus member | the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) |
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 |
Doctor of Dental Surgery DDS | a doctor's degree in dental surgery |
penis envy | (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis, said to explain femininity |
cosmetic surgeon plastic surgeon | a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face) |
credit card charge card charge plate plastic | a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered, do you take plastic? |
plastic | generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives |
amino plastic aminoplast amino resin | a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds, used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles |