(adj) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine, Syn. operative, Ant. medical, Example:a surgical appendix; a surgical procedure; operative dentistry
a. Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]
Surgical fever. (Med.) (a)Pyaemia.(b)Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]