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How to pronounce “surgery”
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Pronunciation guide for surgery
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of surgery with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Perils of Back Surgery
I want to think about surgery.
- Definition summary
- (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
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How to pronounce surgery
The Perils of Back Surgery
I want to think about surgery.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “surgery”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
- (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
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