surgical vs sympathetic

surgical

adj
  • Excruciatingly or wearyingly drawn-out 

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

  • Precise or very accurate. 

sympathetic

adj
  • Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way. 

  • A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. 

  • Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration. 

  • Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action. 

  • Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves. 

  • Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association. 

  • Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy. 

  • Attracting the liking of others. 

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