(medicine) A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body. / (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.

plural of surgery

(topology) The removal of a solid torus from a 3-dimensional manifold, followed by its being replaced via a homeomorphism of its boundary.

The time during which a medical doctor regularly receives patients to his or her surgery for consultation or treatment.

cosmetic surgery

A sequential chain of organ transplants where each recipient donates another organ to another person in exchange for the one that they have received.

A medical fraud in which a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his/her bare hands, using fake blood and other trickery.

Anything overly complex, detailed or confusing.

Alternative form of aesthetic surgery

(medicine) Surgery which alters a person's physical appearance, performed not for health reasons but in order to increase his or her beauty or physical appeal; cosmetic surgery.