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surgical

DEFINITIONS OF: surgical

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adj of or relating to or involving or used in surgery

surgical instruments”
surgical intervention”
Antonyms:
nonsurgical
not surgical

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

“a surgical appendix”
“a surgical procedure”
Synonyms:
operative
preoperative
happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation
postoperative
happening or done after a surgical operation
Antonyms:
medical
requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery

adj performed with great precision

“a surgical air strike”
Synonyms
accurate
conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
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