surgically

English

Etymology

From surgical +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

surgically (not comparable)

1. Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.

   His cancer was treated surgically instead of with drugs or radiation.

   • 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.

   • 2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica‎^[2], volume 57, →DOI:

     The cause of uroperitoneum often can be determined and the condition corrected surgically.

Derived terms

• surgically gowned
• surgically induced childhood

Translations

relating surgery

• Catalan: quirúrgicament (ca)
• French: chirurgicalement (fr)
• German: chirurgisch (de)
• Italian: chirurgicamente (it)
• Polish: chirurgicznie (pl)
• Portuguese: cirurgicamente
• Spanish: quirúrgicamente