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say it: SUR-jur-ee
surgery is a noun meaning "the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures". It is pronounced /ˈsɝdʒɚi/ — SUR-jur-ee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
“he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School”
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
“he read the warning in the doctor's surgery”
United Kingdom
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
“great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic”
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”
surgery
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surgery come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.