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Opera Operate Operation Operetta

Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)

Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ OPERA      lat OPUS = A WORK or CREATION            see> OPUS
^            art> or MUSIC DRAMA as referred to by R WAGNER [#]
                  A MUSICAL DRAMA WITH EMPHASIS ON LYRICAL ASPECTS
             A GRAND OPERA or HIGH " MUSICAL DRAMA " ARE PERFORMED
             WITH ACCOMPANIMENT BY A FULL ORCHESTRA
~ OPERATE    TO WORK
             also from lat OPUS OPERIS
~ OPERATION  biol> med> in modern parlance the scope is reduced
                        to imply a MANUAL PROCEDURE PROCESS
             PERFORMED BY A SURGEON CHIRON CHIROPRACTOR
~ OPERETTA   art> in music A LIGHT OPERA
             consider OPERATION  OPUSCULE  COOPERATE  COOPERATIVE
  INOPERATIVE  HORS D'OEUVRE  AVERAGE

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