User talk:Jpl486

Surgery[edit]

You changed the origin of surgery/chirurgia from Latin to Greek; do you have a motivation/cite for this? According to Webster's 1913 dictionary:

 Surgery \Sur"ge*ry\, n. [OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF.
    cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. ?. See Surgeon.]
    1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of
       medical science which treats of manual operations for the
       healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch
       of medical science which has for its object the cure of
       local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures,
       tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines
       and constitutional treatment.
 
    2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Thanks, Dewet 22:02, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)