surgical mask

surgical mask

English

Noun

A medical professional wearing a surgical mask

surgical mask (plural surgical masks)

1. (medicine, infectious disease) A mask worn to catch bacteria shed in liquid droplets and aerosols from the wearer's mouth and nose.
2. A medical-grade mask worn during surgery.

Synonyms

• face diaper
• procedure mask
• SARS mask

 

Translations

mask worn to catch bacteria

Albanian: maska kirurgjike, maska mjekësore, maskë për fytyrën Arabic: كِمَامَة‎ (ar) f (kimāma), قِناع جِراحِيّ‎ m (qināʿ jirāḥiyy) Gulf Arabic: كمام‎ m (kammām) Moroccan Arabic: كمامة‎ f (kammāma), كمامة‎ f (kmāma) Armenian: բժշկական դիմակ (bžškakan dimak) Catalan: màscara quirúrgica, mascareta (ca), tapaboca Chinese: Cantonese: 口罩 (hau2 zaau3) Hakka: 嘴落仔 (choi-lap-é), 揞嘴仔 (êm-choi-é), 封嘴仔 (fûng-choi-é) Mandarin: 口罩 (zh) (kǒuzhào) Min Nan: 喙罨 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-am), 喙罩 (chhùi-tà) Czech: rouška (cs) f, chirurgická maska f, obličejová rouška f Danish: mundbind n (coronavirus prevention covering the nose and mouth), mundble c (humorous) Dutch: mondkapje (nl) n, mondkap (nl) f, mondmasker (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: leikkausmaski (fi) French: masque chirurgical (fr), masque de procédure, masque d'hygiène, masque à trois plis German: Mund-Nasen-Maske (de) f, Mund-Nasen-Schutz (de) m, Mundschutz (de) m, Schutzmaske (de) f (coronavirus prevention covering the nose and mouth) Greek: χειρουργική μάσκα (el) f (cheirourgikí máska) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: szájmaszk (hu) Indonesian: masker bedah, masker (id) Italian: maschera chirurgica, mascherina chirurgica, maschera medica Japanese: 衛生マスク (eisei masuku), マスク (ja) (masuku) Korean: 서지컬 마스크 (seojikeol maseukeu) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malay: topeng pembedahan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: medisinsk munnbind n, munnbind (no) n Persian: ماسک جراحی‎ Polish: półmaska f, maseczka chirurgiczna f Portuguese: máscara cirúrgica f Romanian: mască chirurgicală f Russian: хирурги́ческая ма́ска f (xirurgíčeskaja máska) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: máscara quirúrgica f, tapaboca f, barbijo m, mascarilla (es) f, mascarilla quirúrgica f, cubrebocas m Swedish: munskydd (sv) n, skyddsmask (sv) c Tamil: please add this translation if you can Thai: ผ้าปิดจมูก (pâa-bpìt-jà-mùuk), หน้ากากอนามัย (nâa-gàak-à-naa-mai), แมสก์ (mɛ́ɛt), แมส (mɛ́ɛt) Vietnamese: khẩu trang (vi), khẩu trang y tế Zhuang: baengzgoemqbak, goujcau

specifically, surgical mask

Albanian: maska kirurgjike Catalan: màscara quirúrgica f Chinese: Mandarin: 外科口罩 (wàikē kǒuzhào), 醫用口罩／医用口罩 (yīyòng kǒuzhào) Czech: chirurgická maska f Finnish: leikkausmaski (fi) French: masque chirurgical (fr) f Italian: maschera chirurgica f, mascherina chirurgica f Polish: maseczka chirurgiczna f Portuguese: máscara cirúrgica f Romanian: mască chirurgicală f Spanish: máscara quirúrgica f, mascarilla quirúrgica f

See also

• CN95
• dust mask
• KN94
• N95
• paint mask
• respirator

 

Further reading

• surgical mask on Wikipedia.Wikipedia