Operating
Surgical
Surgical adjective - Of or relating to or involving or used in surgery.
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Synonyms for Surgical
Operating and surgical are semantically related. You can use "Operating" instead an adjective "Surgical".
Nearby Words: surgery, surgically
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Moreau gets killed in his own operating room, with his own surgical instruments.
Source: Film / Island of Lost Souls -
The room where he has the confrontation with Soichiro looks like it was once an operating room, complete with tiles and a surgical lamp.
Source: Abandoned Hospital -
When he wakes, he's strapped to the operating table/Conveyor Belt-O-Doom for a rather nasty surgical procedure to turn him into one of them...and after watching most of the "Stroggification" procedure happen to yourself, the cavalry shows up.
Source: Strapped to an Operating Table
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