surgeon
noun
a physician who specializes in surgery.
surgeons
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pluralof surgeon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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After the procedure at Rome's Gemelli hospital on Tuesday, the Vatican revealed that the growth was cancerous and that surgeons had removed part of his right lung.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
They switched departments to learn from surgeons who didn’t use robotic arms or spent hundreds of extra hours on simulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Steve Palmer, 55, from Nottingham, is among those to benefit from the new technology - and it meant surgeons were able to get his result while they were still operating to remove his tumour.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
When he finally woke up, in an intensive care unit in Oklahoma City, about 90 miles northeast of Comanche, he learned that surgeons had removed 13 inches of his small intestine during emergency surgery.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The psychologist Nalini Ambady listened to Levinson’s tapes, zeroing in on the conversations that had been recorded between just surgeons and their patients.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
