major surgery

1. 1.

   any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance

   Antonymsminor surgery

   Broaderoperation

Questions about major surgery

What does major surgery mean?

major surgery means "any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance".

What is the opposite of major surgery?

The recorded antonyms are minor surgery.

Is major surgery a common word?

major surgery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.