surgical
IPA: sˈɝdʒɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery.
- (figuratively) Precise or very accurate.
- (figuratively) Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out
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Examples of "surgical" in Sentences
- The treatment is surgical decompression.
- A surgical bed is in the center of the room.
- Surgical excision is the treatment of choice.
- The hospital has maternity and surgical services.
- Thymectomy is the surgical removal of the thymus.
- The extent of the surgery is dictated by the surgical staging.
- Apparatus is provided for the surgical placement of the device.
- The definitive management is surgical removal of the insulinoma.
- A cricoidectomy is the surgical excision of the cricoid cartilage.
- The term ophthalmologist is an eye specialist for medical and surgical problems.
- This baby should be referred to the surgical clinic where the bone can be set and casted, but first he needs something for his pain.
- "To bomb Ukraine -- conduct what they call a surgical strike against a military base -- absolutely outrageous in view of the Ukrainians 'gesture of friendship."
- Pam Udy of the International Cesarean Awareness Network blames the continuing increase in surgical deliveries in part on the decline in vaginal births after C-sections.
- Improved plastic surgery and advances in surgical techniques, such as a skin-sparing mastectomy and simultaneous breast reconstruction, might be part of the reason more woman are choosing to have a mastectomy.
- "She takes his head, and the corpses of the dead cops, back to her secret, high-tech, underground lab where, using the latest advances in surgical engineering, cybernetic organs, and computer imaging, she makes medical history."
- Democrats in the California Legislature have advocated similar steps, preferring what they call a surgical approach to the state's budget problems rather than the wholesale elimination of programs proposed by the Republican governor.
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