How to Use surgical in a Sentence

surgical

adjective
Definition of surgicalnext
  • The work was done with surgical precision.
  • Meredith asks before the scene shifts to a shot of the surgical interns getting ready for a new day.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Mocha is a 1-year-old female who has a surgical scar on her stomach.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The pros land their tee shots with surgical precision between them and Rae’s Creek.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Even the simple act of peeling away surgical tape would take their skin off, Nadarajah said.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Plastic surgery: In some cases, the only way to truly turn back the effects of would be a surgical face lift, says Dr. Levine.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Now, 40 years later, the remnants of the surgical scar are still palpable on the inside of his lower lip.
    — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the photos, many of the models have regal silver or gold metallic paint brushed across their surgical scars.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • One of the suspects was described as a Black male in his 20s wearing a black hoodie, black pants, dark-colored gloves and a surgical mask.
    — Paul Best, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The researchers had put three surgical staples at the incision site.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Coleman said in the medical surgical unit, the nurse-to-patient ratio is crucial to quick care when the need arises.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Salads tend to show off a surgical grafting of Khan’s and Fox’s aesthetics.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Is the surgical option that could have Purdy, 23, ready around the start of training camp in late July in his best interest?
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2023
  • On the driver’s side, officers wearing blue surgical gloves opened the door and entered.
    — Reis Thebault and Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Virginia said that Edna never talked about it, but Edna was a surgical nurse when ribs were taken out in bushels of six to 10 at a time.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The implant is smaller than a quarter, contains over 1000 electrode channels, and is placed in the brain by a surgical robot.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
  • But the president should be fully cured of this through a small surgical procedure to remove it.
    — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • By the second month of the pandemic, nurses were allowed to use only surgical masks, Gillis said.
    — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Oh, and don't forget the fluorescent lighting, because why not have a dorm room feel like a surgical one?
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Sitcoms are incredibly surgical, and there's not room for that kind of play.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Except for some paintings of Afghanistan, the interior, brightened as if by surgical lights, does not suggest that the food of the country is served there.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Patients will have to deal with the stress of surgical removal procedures and repeat skin exams.
    — Syeda Khaula Saad, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Of the hospitals in the south, just three have surgical capabilities, according to the WHO.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • On the night of the protest Sunday near Beijing’s Liangma River, nearly all the demonstrators donned surgical masks.
    — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The United States also leads the world in low back surgical interventions.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The mature eggs are then retrieved via a minor surgical procedure and fertilized with sperm in a lab.
    — Spencer Goidel, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2024
  • My mother was a surgical nurse, and my father was a classical pianist.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Synchron inserts its device via a surgical incision in the base of the neck and then maneuvers the implant to its destination in the brain.
    — Sarah McBride, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The surgical process is completed in her backyard workshop.
    — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Zoom in: Nearly 2 million Americans are diagnosed with solid tumor cancers each year, and surgical removal is often the first step in their treatment, the White House said.
    — Shawna Chen, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024

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