surgical(a = adj.all) operative - relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"
surgical, adj.
1 of or relating to or done by surgeons or surgery.
2 resulting from surgery (surgical fever).
3 a used in surgery. b (of a special garment etc.) worn to correct a deformity etc.
Idiom
surgical spirit methylated spirit used in surgery for cleansing etc.
Derivative
surgically adv.
Etymology
earlier chirurgical f. chirurgy f. OF sirurgie: see SURGEON