how to say “surgery” in Hebrew
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נִתּוּחַ
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Surgery, as in a surgical operation, is נִתּוּחַ 
listen and repeat – whereas surgery in the abstract sense, is כִירוּרְגִּיָה listen and repeat – chirurgy transliterated.
listen and repeat – whereas surgery in the abstract sense, is כִירוּרְגִּיָה listen and repeat – chirurgy transliterated.So, we have:
הִיא עָבְרָה נִתּוּחַ.
She underwent surgery.
and
הוּא לָמַד כִירוּרְגִּיָה.
He studied surgery.
ניתוח is the abstract noun of the active-intensive verb לְנַתֵּחַ listen and repeat, whose root is נ.ת.ח (n.t.kh) meaning chunk. Suffice it to say that ניתוח sounds better in Hebrew than the imagery its root evokes to the eye.
listen and repeat, whose root is נ.ת.ח (n.t.kh) meaning chunk. Suffice it to say that ניתוח sounds better in Hebrew than the imagery its root evokes to the eye.לנתח also means to analyze or to take apart.
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