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Qual é a diferença entre operation e surgery ?Você pode indicar exemplo de resposta.
Qual é a diferença entre operation e surgery ?Você pode indicar exemplo de resposta.
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13 dez 2014
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- Inglês (EUA)
In medicine, they often have the same meaning. They both can be used when a doctor is cutting open your body to try to fix something. There are some differences:
1. Operation is a "countable noun" (可算名詞), surgery is (usually) a "mass noun" (不可算名詞).
Examples:
I needed an operation on my hip.
I needed surgery on my hip.
He's had several operations.
He's had a lot of surgery.
2. Surgery can also refer to this type of work in general.
In these sentences, we cannot substitute the word "operation" for "surgery":
Surgery has become more advanced.
He specializes in plastic surgery.
Doctors study for many years to learn surgery.
3. "Operation" is a more general word for any practical or mechanical process. For this reason, you might see "surgical operation" used sometimes. "Surgery" is specific to medicine, so "surgical operation" makes it clear that it is a medical type of "operation".
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- Inglês (EUA)
In medicine, they often have the same meaning. They both can be used when a doctor is cutting open your body to try to fix something. There are some differences:
1. Operation is a "countable noun" (可算名詞), surgery is (usually) a "mass noun" (不可算名詞).
Examples:
I needed an operation on my hip.
I needed surgery on my hip.
He's had several operations.
He's had a lot of surgery.
2. Surgery can also refer to this type of work in general.
In these sentences, we cannot substitute the word "operation" for "surgery":
Surgery has become more advanced.
He specializes in plastic surgery.
Doctors study for many years to learn surgery.
3. "Operation" is a more general word for any practical or mechanical process. For this reason, you might see "surgical operation" used sometimes. "Surgery" is specific to medicine, so "surgical operation" makes it clear that it is a medical type of "operation".
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- Inglês (EUA)
In a medical setting, I think they are both the same. I would prefer to say "surgery" because "operation" has many other meanings, but both definitely work.
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You might hear of a military operation, for example.
If the military context is obvious, then it would just be an "operation".
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