kirurgilisi
Kirurgilisi is an Estonian grammatical form that functions as the partitive plural of the adjective kirurgical (kirurgiline), meaning surgical. It is used to describe plural nouns in the partitive case, indicating that the noun is in part or some portion rather than a definite set. In practice, kirugilisi appears most often in phrases such as kirurgilisi operatsioone or kirurgilisi sekkumisi, meaning “surgical operations” or “surgical interventions.” The corresponding nominative plural is kirurgicalid (more commonly written as kirurgiäilised operatsioonid). The adverbial form is kirurgiliselt, meaning “surgically.”
Etymology and related terms: Kirurgiline stems from kirurgia, the Estonian word for surgery, itself borrowed from
Usage notes: Kirurgilisi is primarily a descriptive, technical term found in medical, academic, and clinical texts.