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Adjective: surgical  sur-ji-kul
  1. Of or relating to or involving or used in surgery
    "surgical instruments"; "surgical intervention"
     
  2. Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
    "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"
    - operative
     
  3. Performed with great precision
    "a surgical air strike"

See also: accurate, postoperative, preoperative, surgery, surgically

Antonym: medical, nonsurgical

Encyclopedia: Surgical

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