Surgical Synonyms and Antonyms

sûrjĭ-kəl
Relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. healing
  2. curative
  3. operational
  4. operative
  5. with the surgeon's knife
Antonyms:
  1. medical
  2. nonsurgical

Words Related to Surgical

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Surgical Sentence Examples

  • It was in the management of pleurisies that the aid of surgical means first became eminent in inward disease.

  • His health was ruined by his debaucheries, and a surgical operation became necessary.

  • The work by which he is chiefly known, the celebrated "canon," is an encyclopaedia of medical and surgical knowledge, founded upon Galen, Aristotle, the later Greek physicians, and the earlier Arabian writers, singularly complete and systematic, but is thought not to show the practical experience of its author.

  • It embraces many duties - some of them menial and disagreeable - besides the purely medical and surgical functions.

  • Until she saw the blood on the walls and ceiling, she thought it was a surgical room.

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