SURGICAL

surgical

(adjective) performed with great precision; “a surgical air strike”

surgical, operative

(adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; “a surgical appendix”; “a surgical procedure”; “operative dentistry”

surgical

(adjective) of or relating to or involving or used in surgery; “surgical instruments”; “surgical intervention”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

surgical (comparative more surgical, superlative most surgical)

Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery.

(figuratively) Precise or very accurate.

Source: Wiktionary


Sur"gi*cal, a.

Definition: Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments. Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyæmia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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