sur‧gi‧cal /ˈsɜːdʒɪkəl $ ˈsɜːr-/ adjective [only before noun]
[Date: 1700-1800; Origin: surgeon + -ical]

1. relating to or used for medical operations:
surgical techniques
surgical equipment/instruments/treatment
scalpels and other surgical instruments

2. surgical stocking/collar etc British English a stocking etc that someone wears to support a part of their body that is injured or weak

3. done very carefully and in exactly the right place:
With surgical precision he cut four inches off the legs of the jeans.
—surgically /-kli/ adverb:
The lump was surgically removed.

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