- 1手術的；(比喻)精準的
Surgical means relating to surgery, medical operations done on the body. It's also used figuratively for anything done with extreme precision and care, like a 'surgical strike,' meaning a very carefully targeted action that avoids affecting anything else.
From the word’s history
From Middle English cirurgical, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin cirurgicālis, ultimately from Greek kheirourgía, from kheír 'hand' + érgon 'work'; surgery + -ical.
等於 surgery 加 -ical；源頭是希臘文的「手」加「工作」。
組成surgery + -al, turning the noun into an adjective.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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surgicaladj/ˈsɜːd͡ʒɪkəl/
- 1
Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
- 2
Precise or very accurate.
- The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike.
- 3
Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out.
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