• n.
    ⦿a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
    lexical concept
  • he died while undergoing surgery
  • they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
lexinfo:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:operation
  2. enl:surgery
  3. enl:surgical operation
  4. enl:surgical procedure
  5. enl:surgical process
wn:interlingual indexili:i38955
wn:eq synonymdn:indgreb§2operation§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • surgerysurgical operationsurgical proceduresurgical process
  • operationsurgerysurgical operationsurgical proceduresurgical process