chirurgery


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chirurgery

Archaic. surgery.
See also: Surgery
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Indian MS/MD are included in second category with the condition that it should be followed by doctorate of medicine and Maters of Chirurgery and Diplomat in National Board.
INTRODUCTION: Surgery is derived from the earlier name chirurgery, which means handwork.
See Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Grey and Aletheia Talbot (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2008), introduction; and "Recipes for Knowledge: Maker's Knowledge Traditions, Paracelsian Recipes and the Invention of the Cookbook, 1600-1660," Renaissance Food: Cultural Readings and Cultural Histories, ed.