Operate On (Verb)
Meaning
Perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life".
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
Examples
- The orthopedic surgeon will operate on the injured athlete to repair the damaged knee ligament.
- After the diagnosis, the oncologists decided to operate on the patient to remove the tumor.
- Specialist surgeons have to operate on patients with rare medical conditions.
- The emergency medical team had to operate on the accident victim immediately.
- The skilled neurosurgeon will operate on the patient to correct the birth defect.