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 |
bladderwrack black rockweed bladder fucus tang Fucus vesiculosus | a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
gall midge gallfly gall gnat | fragile mosquito-like flies that produce galls on plants |
gall wasp gallfly cynipid wasp cynipid gall wasp | small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants |
spruce gall aphid Adelges abietis | a variety of adelgid |
air bladder swim bladder float | an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
bladder | a bag that fills with air |
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 |
crust gall impertinence impudence insolence cheekiness freshness | the trait of being rude and impertinent, inclined to take liberties |
gallbladder gall bladder | a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion |
bile gall | a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, aids in the digestion of fats |
bladder vesica | a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) |
urinary bladder | a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine |
bladder sphincter musculus sphincter vesicae | the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder, made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening |
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 |
resentment bitterness gall rancor rancour | a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
white campion evening lychnis white cockle bladder campion Silene latifolia Lychnis alba | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx, sometimes placed in genus Lychnis |
bladder campion Silene uniflora Silene vulgaris | perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
flower-of-an-hour flowers-of-an-hour bladder ketmia black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum | annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, Old World tropics, naturalized as a weed in North America |
bladder senna Colutea arborescens | yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food |
inkberry gallberry gall-berry evergreen winterberry Ilex glabra | evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries |
Chinese lantern plant winter cherry bladder cherry Physalis alkekengi | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orangeed calyx |