procedure

procedure
   any taboo or unpleasant act
   Literally, a method of behaving. In medical jargon, as a shortened form of medical procedure, it is something which may well cause a patient pain, then or later:
    Dr Carolyn Ryan shook her head. 'I have two procedures tomorrow.' (Clancy, 1991 — as a surgeon, she was refusing a glass of wine)
   For police and lawyers, a procedure is a civil or criminal legal action, a synonym of proceedings.
   For a pregnant woman it may be the abortion of a healthy foetus. For the Nazis, it meant mass murder:
    Schindler had heard rumours that 'procedures in the ghetto' were growing more intense. (Keneally, 1982, writing of Poland in the Second World War)

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