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sur·gi·cal

(sûr′jĭ-kəl)

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 airstrikes against enemy compounds.

[From surgeon.]

sur′gi·cal·ly adv.

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surgical

(ˈsɜːdʒɪkəl)

adj

1. (Surgery) of, relating to, involving, or used in surgery

2. (of an action) performed with extreme precision: a surgical air attack on the missile complex.

ˈsurgically adv

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sur•gi•cal

(ˈsɜr dʒɪ kəl)

adj.

1. pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.

2. used in surgery.

3. characterized by extreme precision or incisiveness: a surgical air strike.

[1760–70]

sur′gi•cal•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

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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" operative 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

جِراحي

chirurgický

kirurgisk

műtétisebész i

skurîlæknis-, skurîar-

chirurgico

kirurgisk

chirurgický

ameliyatla ilgilicerrahî

外科的

surgical

[ˈsɜːdʒɪkəl]

A. ADJ → quirúrgico

B. CPD surgical dressing N → vendaje m quirúrgico
surgical spirit N → alcohol m de 90°

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

surgical

[ˈsɜː^rdʒɪk^əl] adj

[instruments, gloves] → chirurgical(e)
surgical appliance → appareil m orthopédique

[treatment, operation] → chirurgical(e)

(MILITARY) [strike] → chirurgical(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

surgical

adj treatment, removal → operativ; technique, instrument, training, skill, hospital → chirurgisch; surgical corset → Stützkorsett nt; surgical gloves → OP-Handschuhe pl, → Chirurgenhandschuhe pl; surgical goods shop → orthopädisches Fachgeschäft; surgical intervention → chirurgischer Eingriff; surgical strike (Mil) → gezielter Angriff; surgical team → OP-Team nt, → Chirurgenteam nt; surgical ward → chirurgische Station, Chirurgie f (inf)

surgical

surgical appliance

n → Stützapparat m

surgical boot

n → orthopädischer Schuh

surgical gown

n → OP-Kleidung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

surgical

[ˈsɜːdʒɪk/əl] adj → chirurgico/a
surgical cotton → cotone m idrofilo
surgical dressing → medicazione f

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surgeon

(ˈsəːdʒən) noun

1. a doctor who treats injuries or diseases by operations in which the body sometimes has to be cut open, eg to remove a diseased part.

2. a doctor in the army or navy.

surgery (ˈsəːdʒəri) – plural ˈsurgeries

–

1. the practice or art of a surgeon. to specialize in surgery.

2. a doctor's or dentist's room in which he examines patients.

surgical (ˈsəːdʒikəl) adjective

of, or by means of, surgery. surgical instruments; He is in need of surgical treatment.

ˈsurgically adverb

sur·gi·cal

a. quirúrgico-a;

___ dressing → vendaje ___ protector;

___ equipment → equipo ___;

___ flaps → colgajos ___ -s;

___ incision → incisión ___;

___ instruments → instrumentos ___ -s;

___ mesh → malla ___;

___ resident → residente de cirugía.

surgical

adj quirúrgico

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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.

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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.

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If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were performing a surgical operation on him.

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I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return."

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At the new year Philip became dresser in the surgical out-patients' department.

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Upon the floor between me and the Mahars lay a tiny surgical instrument which one of them must have dropped.

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I was invalided and sent to Calcutta, where the best surgical help was at my disposal.

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Benjamin Allen; both gentlemen having received surgical appointments from the East India Company.

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Too late to know for certain, whether injuries received before or after death; one excellent surgical opinion said, before; other excellent surgical opinion said, after.

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There are nerves and muscles in our frames whose functions and whose methods of working it seems a sort of sacrilege to describe by cold physiological names and surgical technicalities, and the monk's talk suggested to me something of this kind.

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Every time, too, my sword danced about in its sheath, a duel, fortunate in its result, was sure to follow: whenever it dangled about the calves of my legs, it signified a slight wound; every time it fell completely out of the scabbard, I was booked, and made up my mind that I should have to remain on the field of battle, with two or three months under surgical bandages into the bargain."

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In fact, they were badly wounded, and, having thrashed them, he proceeded to operate upon them in a rough surgical fashion and to dress their wounds.