surgical instrument
3
3.8
- noun
- /ˈsɜrʤɪkəl ˈɪnstrəmənt/
- Specialized
:
instrumento quirúrgico
- The nurse handed the surgical instruments to the doctor as needed throughout the operation.
- surgical instruments industry
- manufacture surgical instruments
Examples
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During the procedure, the team relied on advanced surgical instruments to ensure a successful outcome.
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The surgical instruments were interchanged as required to perform atraumatic grasping, incision, cauterization, and suturing of supraglottic tissue.
Academic text (2005) -
These are not knives, these are fine surgical instruments.
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I import a lot of German surgical instruments.
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Her father told Jordan that he wanted to show him some ancient surgical instruments in the den.
Fiction book (1992) -
All operations were performed via a closed approach under general anesthesia with the same surgical instruments.
Academic text (2015) -
Dr. Sakuma had brought his own surgical instruments with him, and they were superior to any in the camp.
Fiction book (1992) -
But in surgery, the assisting surgeon and the nurses interact frequently with the staff in removing and changing surgical instruments.
Academic text (1998) -
Instead of slicing open a body, surgeons inserted cameras and surgical instruments attached to long rods through small incisions.
Academic text (2006) -
The surgeon carefully arranged the surgical instruments on the tray before the operation began.
Synonyms
71
4.2
A small, very sharp knife surgeons use to cut in operations
2
3.9
A tool doctors use to check, treat, or operate on patients
A very sharp knife a doctor uses in an operation to cut parts of the body
How Specialized
- Specialized
3
3.8
2
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'surgical' (relating to surgery) modifies 'instrument' (a tool), so the combined meaning is simply a tool used in surgical procedures. This adjective+noun composition is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Surgical instrument joins surgical (about surgery or 'operations') and instrument ('tool'). Picture a surgeon holding a small, sharp tool to make a careful cut, and that image explains why the phrase means a medical tool used in operations.