Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wrong-site_surgery

1 sense of wrong-site surgery

Sense 1
wrong-site surgery -- (a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body)
       => 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")