English

hypnosurgery

From hypno- + surgery.

Proto-Indo-European *supnós ‘sleep’

Proto-Hellenic *húpnos

Ancient Greek ὕπνος ‘sleep’

Ancient Greek χειρουργία

Latin chīrūrgia ‘a surgery’

Old French surgerie

Middle English surgerie

Today it means

noun Surgery carried out with the patient in a state of hypnosis rather than anesthesia.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hypnosurgery