seriously ill

(medicine) symptom (of an illness); condition of a patient

an operation; surgery (procedure involving major incisions)

the number of overlaps; fold, layer

needed, necessary

to operate on; to perform surgery on

直ぐに: immediately

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

straight, not bent

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)