chirurgic, a. arch.
(kaɪˈrɜːdʒɪk)
Also 7 chyrurgick, chirurgick.
[ad. L. chīrūrgic-us, or its original, Gr. χειρουργικ-ός surgical, f. chīrūrg-us, χειρουργ-ός surgeon: see chirurgy.]
Of or belonging to surgery, surgical.
| 1655–60 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 164 Medecine is of five kinds, Chyrurgick, by incision or cauterising, etc. 1741 Warburton Div. Legat. II. iv. §3. 58 The three parts of medicine, the Chirurgic, the Pharmaceutic, and the Diætetic. 1838–9 Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. viii. §40. 346 Ambrose Paré..is deemed the founder of chirurgic science. |