adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a surgical scar (=caused by a medical operation)
▪ He had a large surgical scar on his back.
surgical gloves (=special gloves worn by doctors)
▪ Surgical gloves help prevent the spread of germs.
surgical spirit
surgical strike
surgical techniques
▪ Surgical techniques have improved considerably in the last twenty years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abortion
▪ But I fear that if this pill is licensed, access to surgical abortion may be reduced.
▪ By contrast, surgical abortion is most effective and most often done later in pregnancy.
glove
▪ Allied businesses such as specialist surgical gloves also offer strong growth potential worldwide.
▪ All the most basic supplies-disinfectants, syringes, surgical gloves-are lacking.
▪ They came into the hallway before opening it and taking out rubber surgical gloves.
instrument
▪ From its size, the knife must have had a very specific use and may even have been a surgical instrument.
▪ We found medical equipment, surgical instruments, weap-ons, clothing, documents.
▪ Displays of early surgical instruments give a chilling glimpse of the pain the sick must have endured before anaesthetic was invented.
▪ Then she was hired to work at the hospital, sterilizing surgical instruments and assisting elderly patients.
▪ The position of the surgical instrument in the real skull is determined by the sensors in the mechanical arm.
▪ The surgeon uses the tiny camera to guide the surgical instruments in freeing the kidney.
intervention
▪ They base their recommendations on an analysis of 19 randomised controlled trials that examined the effectiveness of surgical interventions for glue ear.
▪ In the epinephrine group, the only case who failed to achieve initial haemostasis received surgical intervention.
▪ Other crucial questions - for example, does surgical intervention prevent problems at school and of language - are still unanswered.
▪ For those, we tried heater probe thermocoagulation or surgical intervention.
▪ Persistent colonic dilatation may constitute an indication for surgical intervention.
▪ In patients with severe haemorrhage and low surgical risk, surgical intervention was carried out immediately.
▪ Crohn's disease causes chronic gastrointestinal symptoms which may require prolonged medication and surgical intervention.
operation
▪ If it isn't a surgical operation will be needed.
▪ A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation can not later sue the surgeon for battery.
▪ Sometimes it is a surgical operation, sometimes not.
▪ It had come out of the blue: a brief note from her, saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation.
▪ You are advised to consult other texts for full details of these and other surgical operations.
▪ This month scientific advisers will consider whether extra controls are needed to protect food and prevent accidental transmission through surgical operations.
patient
▪ Most surgical patients, regardless of the extent of their operation, are at risk of some degree of problem with breathing.
▪ Discharge Many surgical patients will have anxieties about leaving hospital.
▪ The following summary of nursing responsibilities for the care of surgical patients may appear complex at first glance and impossible to remember.
▪ Problems of fluid balance can occur rapidly in surgical patients.
▪ Wound tissue oxygen tension predicts the risk of wound infection in surgical patients.
▪ Shock occurs to varying degrees in all surgical patients, due to alterations in the normal control mechanisms of the body.
precision
▪ But within 10 minutes Dalton had restored parity with surgical precision from 15 yards.
▪ It was an operation executed with little surgical precision.
▪ We were going to be inserted into it - with what they call surgical precision.
procedure
▪ Areas where this need can arise usually occur when a surgical procedure or accident has resulted in loss of bone.
▪ Although not completely pain free, they often prefer this management to any type of surgical procedure.
▪ Indications for surgery are not clearly defined and there is no agreement on the ideal surgical procedure.
▪ Lengths of stay are being cut dramatically for just about every serious medical illness and surgical procedure.
▪ Particular care needs to be taken over: i. accidents or surgical procedures where anaesthetics and appropriate pain relief must be given.
▪ So far, research has centered on two highly experimental surgical procedures.
▪ These patients, apart from fearing the surgical procedure and the effects of malignant disease, often have severe psychological problems after surgery.
▪ They can not read the waivers that they sign preceding surgical procedures.
removal
▪ Sebaceous cysts there'd been, requiring surgical removal, and ulcerated varicose veins.
▪ And many women who have had surgical removal of the ovaries find that the difference in desire can be quite sudden.
specimen
▪ Histology of the surgical specimen showed no cancer.
▪ Epithelial and lamina propria mononuclear cells were isolated from surgical specimens from control, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ Tumours of this size are not identified clinically except incidentally in surgical specimens removed because of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
▪ Surgical specimens Two surgical specimens were examined.
▪ The surgical specimen, however, proved to be benign.
spirit
▪ You will need surgical spirit or white spirit for cleaning the needles.
▪ Nest time use surgical spirit weeks in advance to toughen your feet.
▪ I have pricked my first blister, squeezed out the fluid, and dabbed it with surgical spirit.
strike
▪ This wasn't a surgical strike, this was a massacre.
team
▪ An independent investigator outside the surgical team was not used.
▪ The true incidence of this varies and is greatly influenced by the experience and skill of the surgical team.
▪ An immediate surgical consultation was sought and the patient was managed jointly with the surgical team.
▪ Surgeons and their surgical teams, dressed in watertight garb, also found the low temperatures more comfortable.
▪ The operation was performed by a surgical team led by Mr Alan Wood.
technique
▪ Most of these studies, however, comprised patient populations treated by varying surgical techniques, in the period before our study.
▪ Current surgical techniques also involve reducing the cornea curvature in a bid to correct short-sightedness.
▪ New surgical techniques mean a hospital stay of less than 48 hours.
treatment
▪ The most extreme example of this was in the surgical treatment sometimes meted out to women.
▪ Controversy exists over the influence of medical or surgical treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux on Barrett's oesophagus.
▪ Before the availability of endoscopic bile duct intervention surgical treatment was the usual approach to management.
▪ A change in management was recorded if manometry changed either medical or surgical treatment.
▪ Restorative proctocolectomy is the procedure of choice for most patients who require surgical treatment for ulcerative colitis.
▪ Urgent surgical treatment by direct suture ligation is the treatment of choice, but the prognosis for most patients is extremely poor.
▪ The authors draw attention to what seems to be a large regional variation between rates of surgical treatment for glue ear.
ward
▪ The pace of work on the surgical ward may appear to be extremely rapid.
▪ You may come across central venous pressure lines on a general surgical ward.
▪ Certain situations may be particularly worrying for nurses new to the surgical ward.
▪ This summary is intended to be an Overview of the care a patient may receive whilst on a general surgical ward.
▪ A high proportion of nursing actions on a surgical ward are directed towards the prevention of problems.
▪ Setting - Four surgical wards at two Sheffield hospitals.
▪ You may however see a chest drain on a general surgical ward.
▪ There seems to be no place for a dying person on the surgical wards.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ surgical instruments
▪ a surgical procedure
▪ The attack was carried out with surgical precision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The course is aimed at trainees from all surgical specialties.
▪ There he was handed a smock and a scalpel and one of the new surgical stapling devices.
▪ These drugs are much more potent and are practically surgical in their effects.
▪ Workers in surgical masks are running a hydraulic compressor and tractor-trailer drivers are warming up their big rigs.