chirurgery
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of chirurgery
1350–1400; chirurg(eon) + -ery; replacing Middle English sirurgerie < Middle French cirurgerie < Latin chīrūrg ( ia ) (< Greek cheirourgía; chirurgeon, -ia ) + Old French -erie -ery
Example Sentences
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When injured by the stingray in 1608, Smith's first thought was of his need for a surgeon and "chirurgery"; so the success of physician Russell's soothing oils came as a pleasant surprise.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
Yesterday, we had, ourselves, this new mode of cheating pain put in practice by a master of chirurgery, on our own side of the Atlantic.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
In that day his fame rested chiefly on his books in physic and chirurgery.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
Such an example of the chirurgery that has to do with the altering of the human face had never before been witnessed, for nature had never made those faces.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
Mais, is it not that there are learned faculties in Paris––men skilled in chirurgery even to the taking off of cataracts and the restoration of sight?
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
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