house surgeon
a surgeon who lives in a hospital where they are on call.
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How to use house surgeon in a sentence
Once the resolution was made to pursue his studies in a more practical manner, he becomes the house-surgeon of a hospital.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyI know an intelligent humane house surgeon who makes a practice of keeping the ward windows open.
Notes on Nursing | Florence NightingaleDr. Gordon was absent, but the house surgeon sent for Mr. Halford to his private room.
Englefield Grange | H. B. PaullA surgeon, a pupil of Gall's came, and our house surgeon, and the head physician from the Hotel-Dieu.
Father Goriot | Honore de BalzacBianchon and the house surgeon stretched the dying man out again on his loathsome bed.
Father Goriot | Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for house surgeon
a house officer working in a surgical as opposed to a medical discipline: Compare house physician
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