(medicine) A procedure in which one or more incisions are made into the body in order to repair damage or remove diseased tissue; an operation.

(law) The legal process for adjudicating claims that someone has violated criminal law.

plural of criminal procedure

(surgery) A pancreaticoduodenectomy.

(databases) A named program or routine stored in a database.

plural of stored procedure

plural of security procedure

plural of surgical procedure

(computing) The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute

biliopancreatic diversion