Origin: Latin suffix -ure
Surgical procedure has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
"they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"
"he died while undergoing surgery"
A procedure in which one or more incisions are made into the body in order to repair damage or remove diseased tissue; an operation.