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What does the word operation mean?

• The act of operating. 1. Any surgical procedure. 2. The action of a drug or other remedy. 3. An evacuation of the bowels.

• Incision or excision of any part of the body.

• Operatio, from opus, operis, 'work.' The application of instruments to the human body with the view of curing disease. The object of an operation, operatio chirurgica, is generally to divide or reunite parts, to extract extraneous or noxious bodies, and to replace organs that are wanting, by different instruments or artificial means. The principal operatory methods have been called Synthesis, Diaeresis, Exaeresis, and Prothesis. Frequently, the most difficult subject connected with an operation is to decide when it is absolutely called for or advisable, and when improper.

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