surgical operation

Questions about surgical operation

What does surgical operation mean?

surgical operation means "a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body".

What is another word for surgical operation?

Close synonyms include operation, surgery, surgical procedure, surgical process. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surgical operation a common word?

surgical operation 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.