surgery

noun

• A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.

  "Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading."

• The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
• A room or department where surgery is performed.
• A doctor's office.

  "I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids."

• Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.

  "Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday."

• (bankruptcy) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
• The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.