surgery
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a body. This action is commonly performed at a hospital.
Related tags
Surgical performer
Medical instruments / service objects
- bandages
- forceps
- gauze
- hospital bed
- intravenous drip
- iv stand
- operating table
- oxygen mask
- saw
- scalpel
- stethoscope
- stitches
- surgical light
- surgical scissors
- syringe
- x-ray
Clothing
Kinds of Surgeries
Generally speaking, surgeries ending with the suffix -tomy are removals or incisions to clear a blockage while ones ending in -plasty are repairs or the creation of a new organ.
- breast reduction
- circumcision
- clitoridectomy
- clitoroplasty
- hysterectomy - uterus and cervix removal
- labiaplasty
- lobotomy
- mastectomy
- oophorectomy - overy removal
- orchiectomy - testicle removal
- phalloplasty -
- salpingectomy - fallopian tubes removal
- scrotoplasty
- sex reassignment surgery
- tracheotomy - throat incision
- vaginoplasty
