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chirurgery

[ kahy-rur-juh-ree ]

noun

, Archaic.


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Other Words From

  • chi·rurgic chi·rurgi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chirurgery1

1350–1400; chirurg(eon) + -ery; replacing Middle English sirurgerie < Middle French cirurgerie < Latin chīrūrg ( ia ) (< Greek cheirourgía; chirurgeon, -ia ) + Old French -erie -ery
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Example Sentences

The disease of the nation was organic, and not functional, and the rough chirurgery of war was its only remedy.

This sounds absurd only to those who have not perused the Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery.

Fats and Unguents never appear in their Chirurgery, when the Skin is once broke.

These flakes here are an entry to a higher work, and of more things for Chirurgery and Medicine.

They took him up and conveyed him into a druggist's shop, the master of which practiced chirurgery.

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