Surgery. Originally: surgical removal of an organ or other part of the body; the cutting away of abnormal tissue; an instance of this (now rare). In…

Medicine. Surgical excision of an abnormal part of the body; amputation; extraction (of teeth). Obsolete.

Surgery. The operation of removing, by excision or the application of caustics, anything having an inward growth.

The action or process of drawing (something) out of a receptacle; the pulling or taking out (of anything) by mechanical means; †withdrawal or removal…