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surgically

surgically

40 5.2
Using an operation on the body
  • adverb
  • /ˈsɜrʤɪkli/
: quirúrgicamente
  • We mailed questionnaires to 124 patients who had been surgically treated for otosclerosis between 1994 and 1997.
  • treated surgically
  • removed surgically
  • surgically implanted

And and you had you had it surgically opened.

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Examples

  • During the operation, the doctor surgically repaired the damaged ligaments in her knee.

  • You know, we could have that thing surgically connected to the side of your head.

  • Fifty-two years later, medical science was able to surgically correct the damage to his eyes.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In a few minutes, his stomach will be surgically reduced to the size of a small apple in a gastric bypass operation.

  • Oral warts can be removed surgically with various techniques, but the recurrence rate is high.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The surgeon explained that the tumor would be surgically removed during the procedure.

  • After the accident, he had a surgically inserted plate to stabilize his fractured bone.

Synonyms

endoscopically
vssurgically
  • Specialized
1 6.8

Using a thin tube with a camera to look inside the body for medical checks or surgery

is done by an operation rather than only with a camera tube method
percutaneously
vssurgically
  • Specialized
1 8.9

In a way that goes through the skin using a needle or small instrument to reach inside the body

is performed by operation rather than being done through the skin

How Surgical

surgically
40 5.2

Surface Forms

surgically positive

Morphology

surgically = surgical (transparent) = surgery + al + ly

The word is formed regularly from the adjective 'surgical' with the adverbial suffix '-ly', so its meaning is compositionally recoverable.

Etymology

The word surgically comes from surgery, which comes from the Greek words cheir 'hand' and ergon 'work', and originally meant 'hand work' by doctors on the body. So to do something surgically is to do it by a medical operation or to do it very exactly and carefully.