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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…

Operative surgery.

enting putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

f blood, as from the nose or a wound; a hemorrhage; the operation of letting blood, as in surgery; a drawing or running of sap from a tree or plant.

Surgery. [Obs.]

A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.

red by the exhibition and examination of living patients. -- Clinical medicine, Clinical surgery, that part of medicine or surgery which is occupied with the investigation of disease in the living subject.

Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental surgery.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

That which is despaired of. "The mere despair of surgery he cures." Shak.

abar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.

of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

Plastic force. (Physiol.) See under Force. -- Plastic operation, an operation in plastic surgery. -- Plastic surgery, that branch of surgery which is concerned with the repair or restoration of lost, injured, or deformed parts of the body.

o set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.