Kirurgilisel

Kirurgilisel is an Estonian adjective form meaning “surgical.” It functions as the adessive singular form of the adjective kirudiline/kirurgiline, the base word describing something related to surgery. In Estonian, adjectives agree with the noun in case, number, and gender, and the adessive form is used to indicate manner, location, or purpose connected with the noun.

In practice, kirurgilisel is commonly found in formal or technical language, particularly in medical and clinical contexts. It is often paired with nouns in the adessive case to convey how something is done or for what purpose, for example in phrases such as “kirurgilisel viisil” (in a surgical manner) or “kirurgilisel eesmärgil” (for surgical purposes). The form can be inflected further to accommodate number and other grammatical needs, with forms like kirurgilistel (adessive plural) appearing in relevant contexts.

Etymology and related terms: kirurgiline is the standard adjective meaning “surgical,” derived from kirurgia (surgery) and related to the noun kirurgia. Other related words include kirurgia (surgery) and kirurg (surgeon). Kirurgilisel shares its semantic field with these terms and is part of the same linguistic family used to describe medical procedures, equipment, and practices in Estonian.

See also: kirurgia, kirurg, kirurgiline.