Tra từ operation - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

see also DOCTOR, HOSPITAL, ILLNESS, MEDICINE
- a form of medical treatment in which your body is cut open so that part of it can be removed or treated: operation, surgery (noun U); adjective: surgical
The operation on his shoulder was a success. ◎ an operation for appendicitis ◎ She needs emergency surgery. ◎ surgical instruments
- to do an operation: operate (on sb), perform an operation (on sb)
They decided to operate immediately. ◎ perform a kidney operation
- to go to hospital for an operation: have an operation
When is she going to have her hip replacement operation?
- to have an operation in which sth will be removed: have sth out
I've got to have my appendix out.
- a big operation is a major operation; opposite: minor
- when you get better after an operation you recover (from the operation), make* a good/complete recovery
- a doctor who performs operations: surgeon
a brain/heart surgeon
- the room in a hospital where operations are done: operating-theatre, theatre (AmE theater)
He's just been taken into theatre.
- the table on which a patient lies during an operation: operating-table
- the place where patients who are very seriously ill or injured receive special care: intensive care (noun U)
She's still in intensive care.
- a substance that stops you feeling pain when a doctor is performing an operation on you: anaesthetic (AmE anesthetic); one that only affects part of the body and does not make you unconscious: local anaesthetic; one that makes you unconscious: general anaesthetic
- a person who gives anaesthetics to patients: anaesthetist (AmE anesthetist)
- to give sb an anaesthetic: anaesthetize (AmE anesthetize) sb
- putting one person's blood into another person's body: (blood) transfusion
He was given several transfusions during the operation.
- to cut off a person's arm or leg, or part of it: amputate sth; noun (C/U): amputation
The doctors decided to amputate his leg below the knee. ◎ They're hoping that amputation won't be necessary.
- an operation in which a part of one person's body is taken out and put into another person's body: transplant; verb: transplant sth
a heart transplant
- a medical condition in the body that cannot be treated by an operation is inoperable
He was suffering from an inoperable cancer.