a. [Alteration of CHIRURGICAL after surgeon, surgery. Cf. med.L. surgicus.] Pertaining to, dealing with, or employed in surgery or the surgeon’s art.

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1770.  Cook, Voy. round World, II. ix. (1773), 461. The vulnerary herbs and surgical art of the country.

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1800.  Med. Jrnl., IV. 280. A Course of Lectures on Select Surgical Cases in the Hospital.

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c. 1800[?].  Syd. Smith, in Lady Holland, Mem. (1855), I. 15. ‘It requires,’ he used to say, ‘a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.’

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1846.  Holtzapffel, Turning, II. 911. Surgical scissors are of many forms.

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1884.  Thompson, Tumours of Bladder, 39. The dusty pages of old surgical writers.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 585. The drainage … of the tympano-antral cavities by a surgical opening into the antrum.

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  b.  Path. Resulting from surgical treatment.

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1859.  Simpson, in Nat. Encycl., I. 150. Not unfrequently followed by Surgical fever.

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1890.  Billings, Nat. Med. Dict., S[urgical] kidney, diseased kidney, resulting from … operations on the genito-urinary tract.

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  Hence Surgically adv., by the application of, or in relation to, surgical treatment.

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1879.  St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 96. The patient … was treated surgically for a left inguinal hernia.

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1880.  Barwell, Aneurism, 32. All these forms of disease are surgically somewhat peculiar.

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