surgical mask

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Noun

A medical professional wearing a surgical mask

surgical mask (plural surgical masks)

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

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mask worn to catch bacteria

Albanian: maska kirurgjike, maska mjekësore, maskë për fytyrën
Arabic: كِمَامَة (ar) f (kimāma), قِناع جِراحِيّ m (qināʕ 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)

Hokkien: 喙罨 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-am), 喙罩 (chhùi-tà)

Mandarin: 口罩 (zh) (kǒuzhào)
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
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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)
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Malay: topeng pembedahan (ms), pelitup (Singapore)
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 (es) 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

surgical mask

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