surgical spirit

1. 1.

   methylated spirit used in the practice of medicine (especially for cleansing the skin before injections or before surgery)

   Broadermethylated spirit

   United Kingdom

Questions about surgical spirit

What does surgical spirit mean?

surgical spirit means "methylated spirit used in the practice of medicine (especially for cleansing the skin before injections or before surgery)".

Is surgical spirit a common word?

surgical spirit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.