surgical procedure

Noun

1.

surgical procedure - 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" Synonyms: surgical operation, surgical process, surgery, operation

ablate, ablation, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, D and C, debridement, decorticate, decortication, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, evisceration, excision, exenteration, extirpation, fenestration, freeze, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, haemorrhoidectomy, haemostasia, haemostasis, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, hemostasia, hemostasis, hypophysectomise, hypophysectomize, hysterotomy, implantation, incision, intestinal bypass, iridectomy, iridotomy, jejunostomy, major surgery, medical procedure, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, operation, orchiopexy, organ transplant, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, polypectomy, PPP, purse-string operation, reconstructive surgery, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, section, sex-change operation, Shirodkar's operation, sterilisation, sterilization, strabotomy, suction, surgery, surgical incision, surgical operation, surgical process, suturing, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, transsexual surgery, trepan, trephination, tympanoplasty, UPPP, uranoplasty, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection, wrong-site surgery