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23 January
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What is the difference between operation and surgery ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between operation and surgery ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Technically there's no difference. Surgery is a general term, while operation is the actual procedure.
e.g. In a brain surgery, the surgeon can perform multiple operations to finish the surgery.
in day-to-day use there's no difference both can be used interchangeably
- English (US)
(When the subject is medical)
They mean the same thing.
Examples)
1) The doctor will operate (do surgery) on him.
2) The doctor will start doing surgery.
In this context, "operation" means "surgical procedure."
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