surgical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   performed with great precision

   a surgical air strike

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

   a surgical appendix

3. 3
   adj

   of or relating to or involving or used in surgery

   surgical instruments

4. 4
   adj

   Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery.

   Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

5. 5
   adj

   Precise or very accurate.

   The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike.

6. 6
   adj

   Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-ōr Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír) Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Hellenic *wérgon Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon) Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós) Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor. Late Latin chīrurgicus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder. Middle…