Surgery (disambiguation)

Surgery (disambiguation)

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative treatment. It also refers to the place where surgery is performed, or the offices of the practitioner, the surgeon.

Surgery may also mean:

In medicine:
* In American English, a surgical procedure or operation (e.g. "I had three surgeries").
* In British English, a doctor's office or consulting room.

In politics:
* Surgery (politics), a regular time scheduled by a British Member of Parliament to meet with constituents to discuss their concerns and issues, and by extension in British English, other such advice sessions offered by other bodies

In mathematics:
* Surgery theory, a mathematical operation used in topology; two special cases are:
** Dehn surgery
** Hyperbolic Dehn surgery


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