Nursing and Surgery

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Nursing noun - The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm.

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Surgery and nursing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surgery" instead a noun "Nursing".

Nearby Words: nurse, nursed, nursery, nursling

Surgery noun - The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.

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Nursing and surgery are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nursing" instead a noun "Surgery".

Nearby Words: surgeon, surgical, surgically

In cultural terms, there's been a shift towards treating nursing/patient care as a gender-neutral (instead of stereotypically feminized) profession separate from but coequal to medicine and surgery.

Source: Dressed to Heal
Helping with his surgery inspires Parmenter's aimless (and equally clumsy) sister to go into nursing.

Source: Series / F Troop
In his first appearance, he flies in, saves the crew, then performs emergency surgery on the Cat while nursing a broken arm.

Source: Big Damn Heroes / Live-Action TV

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