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sur·gi·cal  (sûrj-kl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of surgeons or surgery.
2. Used in surgery.
3. Resulting from or occurring after surgery.
4. Extremely accurate; precise: surgical air strikes against enemy compounds.

[From surgeon.]

surgi·cal·ly adv.

surgical
Adjective
involving or used in surgery
surgically adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.surgical - of or relating to or involving or used in surgery; "surgical instruments"; "surgical intervention"
nonsurgical - not surgical; "nonsurgical techniques"
2.surgical - relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"
medical - requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery; "medical treatment"; "pneumonia is a medical disease"
3.surgical - performed with great precision; "a surgical air strike"
accurate - conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"
Translations

surgical [ˈsəːdʒɪkl] adjquirúrgico
surgical [ˈsəːdʒɪkl] adjchirurgical(e)
surgical [ˈsəːdʒɪkl] adjchirurgisch;
(treatment) → operativ
surgical [ˈsəːdʒɪkl] adjchirurgico/a


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The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.
He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found, surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock.
Upon the floor between me and the Mahars lay a tiny surgical instrument which one of them must have dropped.
 
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