MINOR SURGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minor surgery mean? 

• MINOR SURGERY (noun)
  The noun MINOR SURGERY has 1 sense:

1. any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance

  Familiarity information: MINOR SURGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINOR SURGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("minor surgery" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Antonym:

major surgery (any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance)

 Context examples 

Getting a pacemaker or ICD requires minor surgery.

(Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators, NIH)

Traditionally, minor surgery to draw marrow from the hipbones followed by collection of the stems cells from the donated marrow.

(Bone Marrow Donation, NCI Thesaurus)