surgical mask

English

Noun

A medical professional wearing a surgical mask

surgical mask (plural surgical masks)

1. (medicine, infectious disease) A mask worn to catch bacteria shed in liquid droplets and aerosols from the wearer's mouth and nose.
2. A medical-grade mask worn during surgery.

Synonyms

• face diaper
• procedure mask
• SARS mask

 

Translations

mask worn to catch bacteria

• Albanian: maska kirurgjike, maska mjekësore, maskë për fytyrën
• Arabic: كِمَامَة (ar) f (kimāma), قِناع جِراحِيّ m (qināʕ jirāḥiyy)

  Gulf Arabic: كمام m (kammām)

  Moroccan Arabic: كمامة f (kammāma), كمامة f (kmāma)

• Armenian: բժշկական դիմակ (bžškakan dimak)
• Catalan: màscara quirúrgica, mascareta (ca), tapaboca
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 口罩 (hau² zaau³)

  Hakka: 嘴落仔 (choi-lap-é), 揞嘴仔 (êm-choi-é), 封嘴仔 (fûng-choi-é)

  Hokkien: 喙罨 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-am), 喙罩 (chhùi-tà)

  Mandarin: 口罩 (zh) (kǒuzhào)

• Czech: rouška (cs) f, chirurgická maska f, obličejová rouška f
• Danish: mundbind n (coronavirus prevention covering the nose and mouth), mundble c (humorous)
• Dutch: mondkapje (nl) n, mondkap (nl) f, mondmasker (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: leikkausmaski (fi)
• French: masque chirurgical (fr), masque de procédure, masque d’hygiène, masque à trois plis
• German: Mund-Nasen-Maske (de) f, Mund-Nasen-Schutz (de) m, Mundschutz (de) m, Schutzmaske (de) f (coronavirus prevention covering the nose and mouth)
• Greek: χειρουργική μάσκα (el) f (cheirourgikí máska)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szájmaszk (hu)
• Indonesian: masker bedah, masker (id)
• Italian: maschera chirurgica, mascherina chirurgica, maschera medica
• Japanese: 衛生マスク (eisei masuku), マスク (ja) (masuku)
• Korean: 서지컬 마스크 (seojikeol maseukeu)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: topeng pembedahan (ms), pelitup (Singapore)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medisinsk munnbind n, munnbind (no) n

• Persian: ماسک جراحی
• Polish: półmaska f, maseczka chirurgiczna f
• Portuguese: máscara cirúrgica f
• Romanian: mască chirurgicală f
• Russian: хирурги́ческая ма́ска f (xirurgíčeskaja máska)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: máscara quirúrgica f, tapaboca f, barbijo (es) m, mascarilla (es) f, mascarilla quirúrgica f, cubrebocas m
• Swedish: munskydd (sv) n, skyddsmask (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ผ้าปิดจมูก (pâa-bpìt-jà-mùuk), หน้ากากอนามัย (nâa-gàak-à-naa-mai), แมสก์ (mɛ́ɛt), แมส (mɛ́ɛt)
• Vietnamese: khẩu trang (vi), khẩu trang y tế
• Zhuang: baengzgoemqbak, goujcau

specifically, surgical mask

• Albanian: maska kirurgjike
• Catalan: màscara quirúrgica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外科口罩 (wàikē kǒuzhào), 醫用口罩／医用口罩 (yīyòng kǒuzhào)

• Czech: chirurgická maska f
• Finnish: leikkausmaski (fi)
• French: masque chirurgical (fr) f
• Italian: maschera chirurgica f, mascherina chirurgica f
• Polish: maseczka chirurgiczna f
• Portuguese: máscara cirúrgica f
• Romanian: mască chirurgicală f
• Spanish: máscara quirúrgica f, mascarilla quirúrgica f

See also

• CN95
• dust mask
• KN94
• N95
• paint mask
• respirator

 

Further reading

• surgical mask on Wikipedia.Wikipedia