Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a surgical manner; by means of surgery.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb By means of surgery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a surgical manner; by means of surgery

Etymologies

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surgical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Sixtysomething Helen Mirren currently seems to be cornering the market in surgically unaltered broads of a certain age, and it'll be hard not to get a kick out of seeing her firing a Browning M2HB in Red.

    Spotted: an older woman on screen Anne Billson 2010

  • Gastric bypass essentially results in surgically enforced, very low-calorie, low-carbohydrate dietary intake, thus requiring attention to adequate (0.5 g/kg) daily protein intake.

    Medpundit 2007

  • A woman whose uterus and ovaries were removed, causing what is called surgically induced menopause, explains

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • A woman whose uterus and ovaries were removed, causing what is called surgically induced menopause, explains

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • A woman whose uterus and ovaries were removed, causing what is called surgically induced menopause, explains

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • A woman whose uterus and ovaries were removed, causing what is called surgically induced menopause, explains

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Those aborted embryos (whether aborted surgically from a womb, or aborted during their growth and development in a petri dish) aren’t human, or if they are, they aren’t human in the full sense of the word, so the argument goes.

    Archive 2003-01-01 2003

  • You, after all, are the very same premier who had the word Caledonia surgically removed from his cerebral cortex and who publicly asserted that black-only schools in Toronto were a bad idea, but steadfastly refused to get involved.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARK SCHATZKER 2011

  • After certain medical treatments, estrogen levels may drop quite suddenly, as is seen when the ovaries are removed surgically, which is called surgical menopause.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • After certain medical treatments, estrogen levels may drop quite suddenly, as is seen when the ovaries are removed surgically, which is called surgical menopause.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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