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surgically

surgically adverb: relating to surgery; by means of surgery.

Adverb

surgically (not comparable)

  1. Relating to surgery; by means of surgery.
    • His cancer was treated surgically instead of with drugs or radiation.
    • 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.2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN

Origin of surgically

From surgical + -ly.

Words formed from surgically

Questions about surgically

What does surgically mean?
Surgically means relating to surgery; by means of surgery.
What part of speech is surgically?
Surgically is an adverb.

Words near surgically in the dictionary

  1. surgical technologist
  2. surgical technologists
  3. surgical-gowned
  4. surgicalist
  5. surgicalists
  6. surgically
  7. surgically gowned
  8. surgically induced childhood
  9. surgicenter
  10. surgicenters
  11. surgicentre

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