Functioning and Surgery

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.
  • usage: "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
• A room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted.
  • usage: "he read the warning in the doctor's surgery"
• A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.
  • usage: "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
  • synonyms: operating room, OR, operating theater, operating theatre
• A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.
  • usage: "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
  • synonyms: operation, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process

• (n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
• (n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.