medical vs surgical

medical

noun
  • A medical examination. 

adj
  • Requiring medical treatment. 

  • Pertaining to or requiring treatment by other than surgical means. 

  • Pertaining to medication specifically (that is, pharmacotherapy), rather than to other aspects of medicine and surgery. 

  • Intended to have a therapeutic effect; medicinal. 

  • Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine. 

  • Pertaining to the state of one's health. 

surgical

adj
  • Of, relating to, used in, or resulting from surgery. 

  • Precise or very accurate. 

  • Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out 

How often have the words medical and surgical occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )