外科

• 読み: げか
• ローマ字: geka
• 漢字の分解: 外 (ge/gai/soto) — outside, external; 科 (ka) — department, branch, subject
• 発音: /ɡe.ka/

意味

Surgery; surgical department. The branch of medicine that treats diseases and injuries through operations.

A noun referring to surgery as a medical specialty, as well as the surgical department of a hospital. Contrasts with 内科 (naika, internal medicine). Used in compound terms like 外科医 (gekai, surgeon), 外科手術 (geka shujutsu, surgical operation), and 整形外科 (seikei geka, orthopaedic surgery). One of the first medical departments a Japanese learner encounters.

例文

1. 父は外科の医師として三十年以上働いている。
2. 怪我がひどかったので、外科で診てもらった。
3. この病院の外科は腹腔鏡手術で有名だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: hospitals, medical, health

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Sino-Japanese: 外 (ge, outside/external) + 科 (ka, department/branch). Literally 'the external department' — contrasting with 内科 (internal medicine), since surgery deals with conditions from the outside of the body.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal