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antisurgical

antisurgical adjective: opposing surgery.

Adjective

antisurgical (comparative more antisurgical, superlative most antisurgical)

  1. Opposing surgery.
    • Alternative healers also espoused a decidedly antisurgical bias, and many promised cures that avoided the knife.2009, Jason Szabo, Incurable and intolerable, page 34

Forms of antisurgical

comparativemore antisurgical
superlativemost antisurgical

Origin of antisurgical

From anti- + surgical.

Questions about antisurgical

What does antisurgical mean?
Antisurgical means opposing surgery.
What part of speech is antisurgical?
Antisurgical is an adjective.

Words near antisurgical in the dictionary

  1. antisurfactant
  2. antisurfactants
  3. antisurfing
  4. antisurge
  5. antisurgery
  6. antisurgical
  7. antisurveillance
  8. antisurvival
  9. antisway
  10. antisweat
  11. antisweatshop

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