Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine and surgery, the removal from the body of anything that is useless or injurious by evacuation, extraction, excision, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery, obsolete The
operations involved in theremoval of parts of the body.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek a taking away.
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