chirurgical

English

Etymology

From Middle English cirurgical, from Middle French cirurgical, from Medieval Latin chirurgicālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɪˈɹɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪkəl/

Adjective

chirurgical (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Surgical.
   • 1699, Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses., London, Preface:

     We cannot reasonably ſuppoſe that Adam, who was ſo univerſally Skill'd in the Natures of all Plants, ſhould have been ignorant of their Vulnerary Qualities: Or that he would not employ this his Skill in endeavouring to cure Wounds, or Hurts, when any of his new-planted Stock had the Misfortune te^[sic] receive 'em. Abel was wounded and kill'd by Cain, and can we imagine that Adam's Prudence would not uſe its Chirugical endevours to redreſs ſuch diſaſters, when poſſible[?]

   • 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 266:

     For none but a clever dialectician / Can hope to become a great physician; / […] / After this there are five years more / Devoted wholly to medicine, / With lectures on chirurgical lore, / And dissections of the bodies of swine, / As likest the human form divine.

Related terms

• chirurgie
• chirurgion
• chirurgeon

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.ʁyʁ.ʒi.kal/

Adjective

chirurgical (feminine chirurgicale, masculine plural chirurgicaux, feminine plural chirurgicales)

1. surgical

Derived terms

• chirurgicalement

Related terms

• chirurgie
• chirurgien

Further reading

• “chirurgical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French chirurgical, from Latin chirurgicalis.

Adjective

chirurgical m or n (feminine singular chirurgicală, masculine plural chirurgicali, feminine and neuter plural chirurgicale)

1. surgical

Declension

Declension of chirurgical

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	chirurgical		chirurgicală	chirurgicali	chirurgicale
	definite	chirurgicalul		chirurgicala	chirurgicalii	chirurgicalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	chirurgical		chirurgicale	chirurgicali	chirurgicale
	definite	chirurgicalului		chirurgicalei	chirurgicalilor	chirurgicalelor