surgical operation

collocation in English

meaningsofsurgicalandoperation

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surgical
adjective
uk
/ˈsɜː.dʒɪ.kəl/us
/ˈsɝː.dʒɪ.kəl/
used for ...
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operation
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/
the fact of operating or ...
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(Definition ofsurgicalandoperationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This has traditionally been carried out by asurgicaloperation.
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He wants asurgicaloperation.
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He does so by suggesting that we conceive of such suffering on the model of a painfulsurgicaloperation.
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They are suggesting asurgicaloperation.
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And this needed asurgicaloperation.
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Our work was asurgicaloperation.
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The problem of distribution calls for a severesurgicaloperation.
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We need asurgicaloperationto remove the area level.
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It is a case for asurgicaloperation.
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That in itself is a kind of majorsurgicaloperation.
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An elderly patient was discharged after asurgicaloperation.
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The extraction of these teeth is asurgicaloperation, and sometimes asurgicaloperationof some seriousness if the decay is allowed to go far enough without remedy.
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Her parents were then told that there would be asurgicaloperationwithin nine months.
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There is nothing dramatic about it, as there is about asurgicaloperation.
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I think we had to submit to asurgicaloperationto get down to stability.
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I am certainly prepared to wait till that very necessarysurgicaloperationhas been performed.
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Taking four, five or six teeth out is a majorsurgicaloperation.
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You find yourself instead having immediately to carry out asurgicaloperationto remove the segments.
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Let us have a majorsurgicaloperation, a period of convalescence, and, finally, a complete cure.
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The word "medical" would not, used in the general sense, include any kind ofsurgicaloperation.
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It is just as much asurgicaloperationas a medical operation.
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Is anothersurgicaloperationon the structure of local government desired by the public at large?
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It may be termed asurgicaloperation, but where is the anaesthetic?
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Better thesurgicaloperationnow than a long and wasting disease.
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