minor surgery

1. 1.

   any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance

   Antonymsmajor surgery

   Broaderoperation

Questions about minor surgery

What does minor surgery mean?

minor surgery means "any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance".

What is the opposite of minor surgery?

The recorded antonyms are major surgery.

Is minor surgery a common word?

minor 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.