Other forms: surgeries
Surgery is when doctors open the body to repair something inside. Undergo surgery, keyhole surgery, after the surgery.
Keyhole or laparoscopic surgery works through small openings with a camera, which shortens recovery greatly. In British English, a surgery is also the room or building where a GP sees patients — go to the surgery — and an MP's surgery is a session where constituents bring problems, which confuses visitors considerably. Note surgeon; and that the word means handwork, from the Greek.
1nounsurgeryMedical treatment that opens the body.
“He needed surgery on his knee after the accident.”
2noundoctorsA doctor's or MP's consulting session, in British use.
“The doctor's surgery opens at eight, but you have to phone for an appointment.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
surgery is medical treatment, or a consulting place.
Also accepted in games: operation
Greek cheirourgia is cheir, hand, plus ergon, work — handwork. Surgeon, energy and chiropractic come from the same hand and work.
Middle English
surgerie
English, today
surgery
Built from
From Middle English surgerie. From Middle English surgerie, from Old French surgerie, from Latin chirurgia, from Ancient Greek χειρουργία, from χείρ (“hand”) + ἔργον (“work”). a doublet of chirurgy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA