"upper surgery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: upper surgeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} upper surgery (countable and uncountable, plural upper surgeries)
  1. (LGBT, surgery) Synonym of top surgery Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): LGBT, Surgery, Transgender Synonyms: top surgery [synonym, synonym-of], chest surgery Coordinate_terms: lower surgery, bottom surgery

Inflected forms

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