adjective
- Of or relating to or involving or used in surgery.
- usage: "surgical instruments"; "surgical intervention"
- Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine.
- usage: "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"
- synonyms: operative
- Performed with great precision.
- usage: "a surgical air strike"
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