Surgical
['sɜːdʒɪk(ə)l] or ['sɝdʒɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) performed with great precision; 'a surgical air strike' .
(adj.) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; 'a surgical appendix'; 'a surgical procedure'; 'operative dentistry' .
(adj.) of or relating to or involving or used in surgery; 'surgical instruments'; 'surgical intervention' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
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Examples
- Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Vast Variety of Surgical Instruments Invented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This instrument was improved and it gave rise to the contrivance of many delicate surgical instruments for operating on the eye. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Many useful and artistic articles were made under this first patented process, including maps, surgical bandages, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This intention, with a promptitude often the effect of desperation, he at once commenced carrying into execution, with much vigour and surgical skill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is not to be understood that such viewing apparatus is necessary in taking a surgical photograph. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One may study animal life, watch a surgical operation, follow the movement of machinery, take lessons in facial expression or in calisthenics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the United States alone about four thousand patents have been granted for inventions in surgical instruments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I saw it was a surgical case, not of a fatal kind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Morton was the first to apply an anaesthetic to relieve pain in a surgical operation, which he did in a hospital in Boston in 1846. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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