surgery
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 →
2) (UK, Ireland, Australia) A place where you go to see a doctor or dentist; a doctor's office. tree →
3) (UK) The time when a doctor sees patients. tree →
4) (UK) A time when a politician meets local people to hear their problems. tree →
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 →
- The dog needed surgery after the accident. tree →
- I went to the doctor's surgery with a cough. tree →
- Surgery hours are from 8 till 6. tree →
- The surgeon carried out the surgery carefully. tree →
- Heart surgery can save lives. tree →
- 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 →
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.
- In Manchester, Mum sits with the phone at 7.59, ready to ring the surgery the second it opens.
- "A procedure" in hospital talk means an operation or surgery.
- "Under the knife" means having surgery.
- "Had some work done" means had cosmetic surgery, operations on the face or body that change how a person looks.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «surgery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.