chirurgeon
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chirurgeon
1250–1300; < Latin chīrūr ( gus ) (< Greek cheirourgós hand-worker, surgeon; see chiro-, demiurge) + (sur)geon; replacing Middle English cirurgian < Old French cirurgien; surgeon
Example Sentences
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But in the current American Journal of Surgery, two Cleveland doctors recommend a bloodletting technique so radical and daring that an oldtime chirurgeon would have paled at the thought of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did all I could for him, but I'm just a chirurgeon, not a practitioner of the Healing Art.
From The Eyes Have It by Randall Garrett
We find John Devine settled as a chirurgeon in Boston in 1704.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson
The chirurgeon glanced at Ipgreve, and receiving a sign from him, gave a promise to that effect.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
William Marshall, a chirurgeon on board the Hercules, sent him rarities from the Mediterranean.
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
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