surgery

brain surgery

A task requiring extreme intelligence, skill, or competence, usually used in a negative or rhetorical manner to indicate the opposite. Just follow the directions as they're written—it isn't brain surgery.
See also: brain, surgery

in surgery

In the act of performing or receiving a surgical procedure. Dr. Miller is in surgery right now, but I can page another doctor for you. No, Mom's still in surgery, and I'm starting to get worried that it's taking so long.
See also: surgery

meatball surgery

Battlefield surgery that is performed hastily so as to quickly stabilize a patient and prevent imminent death. Popularized (and possibly coined) by H. Richard Hornberger in his semi-autobiographical novel M*A*S*H, which focused on doctors serving in a fictional mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War. Primarily heard in US. At the height of the conflict, our surgeons were primarily concerned with meatball surgery, getting wounded soldiers patched up long enough to receive more specialized treatment down the line.
See also: surgery
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

in surgery

to be involved in surgery. (Can refer to a doctor, nurse, or patients.) Dr. Smith is in surgery now. The patient is still in surgery.
See also: surgery
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • brain surgery
  • brain surgeon
  • all there
  • How (something) can you be?
  • How (something) can you get?
  • how selfish, stupid, ungrateful, etc. can you get?
  • selfish
  • ungrateful
  • have enough sense to pound sand
  • have enough sense to pound salt
References in periodicals archive
He referred to the operations performed by the department such as treatment of a cleft lip and cleft palate, oesophagal obstruction and repair of posterior diaphragmatic hernia in preterm infants, ureteral re-implantation surgeries, ureteral obstruction surgeries, one-stage surgery for the bladder repair, abdominal wall and genitalia after one or two days of childbirth, and biliary atresia surgery by laparoscopic ducts, which is a qualitative operation carried out in the reference medical centres worldwide.
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Robotic Surgery: Strategic Recommendations & World Market Review by Component Type, Surgery Procedures, Region, and Country (2014-2024)
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The Cleveland Clinic notes that many patients who have undergone joint replacement surgeries have experienced dramatic improvement within a relatively short time after undergoing the surgery. Much of that improvement is related to pain, which for many people becomes overwhelming prior to surgery.
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Dr Iftikhar A Jan has more than 30 years broad based clinical, academic and research experience in general pediatric surgery, neonatal surgery, pediatric urology, minimally invasive surgery and reconstructive surgery.
First live operative minimally invasive workshop held at KTH
The authors emphasise that while first eye cataract surgery has the greatest impact on crash rates, second eye cataract surgery is also associated with a significant reduction in accidents.
FEWER CRASHES AMONG OLDER DRIVERS FOLLOWING CATARACT SURGERY
Other surgeries to make the national top five included the Mill Stream Surgery in Oxfordshire, Hingham Surgery near Norwich, Martins Oak Surgery in Battle in East Sussex, and Firs Surgery in Birmingham.
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With robotic technology continuing to grow, minimally invasive surgery may be applicable to a more extensive array of procedures in the future.
Residency Training in Robotic General Surgery: A Survey of Program Directors
To address this issue, we investigated comparing the amount of bleeding between laparoscopic surgery and open surgery by considering the concentration of hemoglobin before and after surgery as indicators.
Gynecologists May Underestimate the Amount of Blood Loss during Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
Children who experience frequent ear infections in both ears are common candidates for ear tube surgery because this fluid build-up in the middle ear can lead to hearing loss or speech problems.
What to expect if your child needs ear tube surgery
London [U.K.], October 29 ( ANI ): Open heart surgery is a surgical procedure to treat certain types of heart diseases.
Afternoon heart surgery has lower risks of surgery, study finds
The University Hospitals Birmingham pilot cut the average time to surgery from two months to just over two weeks.
Fast-track surgery can help docs to beat cancer
During surgery, the patient's ureter was injured, requiring additional surgery.
A woman with MS becomes incontinent after surgery