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surgical

If something is surgical, it is related to or used in a surgery. If something is surgical, it is done with precision or high accuracy. The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike.

surgical

of or relating to or involving or used in surgery surgical instruments surgical intervention performed with great precision a surgical air strike (= operative) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine a surgical appendix a surgical procedure operative dentistry

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Mary's post-operative abdominal pain was caused by the surgeon leaving a surgical instrument inside her.
Tom put on a pair of surgical gloves.

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Have you got a good long surgical bandage?
Well, I think if I had the surgical courage, I'd be in it.
I think I can promise a complete surgical recovery.
Don't use your surgical touch on me.
The usual post-surgical treatment.
Which, in my absence, you supposedly removed by surgical means.
A surgical operation to enlarge the cranial cavity is a long and dangerous one.
There is a surgical block.
A surgical masterpiece.
You have just witnessed a delicate operation on the human brain performed under the most primitive surgical conditions that I hope any of you will ever encounter.
Was it too late for surgical interference?
They don't have surgical linen.
I'm sorry your case is not one that we could have handled with plastic surgery, but your bone structure, flesh type. many factors prohibit the surgical approach.
It's a surgical knife.
Surgical instruments.
But today, the therapeutic value of hypnotism, as we now call it, is conceded by numerable physicians. Especially of value in surgical cases where the administration of local or of general anesthetic is inadvisable.
You surgical butcher.
There's been a very small, but very skillful, surgical operation.
AS A SURGICAL PRE-FRONTAL LOBOTOMY.
I've got an examination to pass, and I'm delayed because a survival from the surgical Stone Age called a matron is going to walk through here!
Mr Mayhew. - Have you worked on a surgical ward before?
He was imprisoned, then sent to a laboratory surgical. where in the name of science. some depraved doctors tortured and killed. innocent men without mercy.
We're afraid of sabotage: surgical assassination.
Surgical assassination?
So we'll put a surgical team and crew into a submarine, reduce it way down in size and inject it into an artery.
I have here a report of the Surgical Committee of this hospital regarding an operation performed by Dr. Weeks.
Dr. Weeks, it is my unhappy duty to inform you that the Surgical Committee considers your work as unbecoming a resident surgeon of this hospital.
I don't know, he wore a surgical mask.
We're afraid of sabotage. Surgical assassination.
So, we've decided to put a surgical team and crew into a submarine, reduce it way down in size, and inject it into an artery.
Phase one calls for miniaturizing a submarine, with crew and surgical team, and injecting it into the carotid artery.
Isn't there another surgical procedure you could try?
But that's a lot different from actual surgical experience.
Our problem: We do not know how long his increased surgical knowledge will stay with him.
Dr. McCoy has lost the surgical knowledge he obtained from the Teacher.
He has been drawing on his own skills in surgical techniques in an attempt to continue the operation.
Beam down Nurse Chapel with an emergency surgical kit.

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Or imagine a simple and inexpensive urine test that can diagnose cancer, eliminating the need for a surgical biopsy.
You attempt a surgical strike: aim at the shooter's head and try to spare the innocents.
The classic surgical option was the mastectomy, where the entire breast and surrounding tissue was removed.
Within the US, variations in the use of breast conservation are linked to surgical bias, as well as to availability of radiation therapy.
To treat cancer cells that might remain in the breast even after an optimal surgical procedure, radiation to the preserved breast is routinely used.
Indeed, surgical resection of affected lungs has become the treatment of choice in many XDR-TB hotspots.
If one adds suppression of air defenses, such a strike might involve roughly 600 targets - far from surgical.
Convincing studies of drugs and surgical procedures usually come only from randomized trials, in which patients receive treatment or don't according to a process analogous to a coin flip.
The medical community has come to accept the need for systematic reviews to guide decisions regarding drugs and surgical therapies, but their use in health policy is only now taking hold.
Indeed, secondary transmission by blood transfusion or surgical instruments might even result in variant CJD becoming endemic in the UK population.
As in any other surgical field, the less the procedure interferes with the body, the less likely it is to affect the patient's quality of life adversely, and the sooner the patient will be able to return to normal activity.
The neuroArm actually has two arms, which can hold various surgical tools while the surgeon maneuvers them from a remote workstation.
Technologies like MRI can help in surgical planning, resection control, and quality assurance.
Magnetic-resonance-compatible robotics allow for real-time imaging, providing information about anatomical structures and changes in the brain relative to surgical pathology while operating, thereby minimizing risk.
That means that the official growth rate does not reflect the rise in real incomes that came with air conditioning, anti-cancer drugs, new surgical procedures, and the many more mundane innovations.
Building on simulation technology, virtual reality will allow surgeons to rehearse procedures, including with surgical robots, in a digital environment.
Some risk factors - moderate hypertension and high cholesterol, for example - have themselves become chronic diseases, requiring medical (and sometimes surgical) treatment and further contributing to the rise in illness rates.
This would prove impossible to eradicate in the absence of improved means of cleaning and decontaminating surgical instruments and a specific test - preferably based on a blood assay - to screen asymptomatic carriers.

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