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# surgery

«surgery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Medical treatment in which a doctor cuts into the body to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (surgery, surgeries; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Medical treatment in which a doctor cuts into the body to repair or remove something; an operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#m1)

2) (UK, Ireland, Australia) A place where you go to see a doctor or dentist; a doctor's office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#m2)

3) (UK) The time when a doctor sees patients. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#m3)

4) (UK) A time when a politician meets local people to hear their problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons, surgery fixes broken bones or removes organs. In everyday UK life, «the doctor's surgery» is where you see your GP (US: «doctor's office»). Phrases: «have surgery», «heart surgery», «the dentist's surgery», «surgery hours».

### examples

- Grandpa had surgery on his knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x1)
- The dog needed surgery after the accident. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x2)
- I went to the doctor's surgery with a cough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x3)
- Surgery hours are from 8 till 6. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x4)
- The surgeon carried out the surgery carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x5)
- Heart surgery can save lives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x6)
- Great Claus got so frightened that he rushed out of the surgery, jumped into the cart, whipped up his horses, and drove home quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/#x7)

### note

Uncountable for the treatment (have surgery), countable for the place (two surgeries). A «surgeon» is the doctor who does the surgery. US: «surgery» is only the operation; the place is the «doctor's office».

### In the corpora

- [When grown-ups are ill, they usually see the GP, the family doctor at the local surgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/0/)
- [In Manchester, Mum sits with the phone at 7.59, ready to ring the surgery the second it opens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/3/)
- ["A procedure" in hospital talk means an operation or surgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/14/)
- ["Under the knife" means having surgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/14/)
- ["Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surgery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surgery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.