Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun surgical_operation

1 sense of surgical operation

Sense 1
operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (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")
       => medical procedure -- (a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners)