surgeon

[sur-juhn]

noun

1. a physician who specializes in surgery.

surgeon

/ ˈsɜːdʒən /

noun

1. a medical practioner who specializes in surgery

2. a medical officer in the Royal Navy

Word History and Origins

Origin of surgeon¹

1250–1300; Middle English surgien < Anglo-French, alteration of Old French cirurgien chirurgeon

Word History and Origins

Origin of surgeon¹

C14: from Anglo-Norman surgien, from Old French cirurgien; see _surgery

Example Sentences

The company that decides whether to approve your surgery also employs the surgeon.

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The patients are demanding to know how the surgeon was able to practise unchecked, despite warnings almost a decade earlier.

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By the time 1955 rolled around, Dr. Scott told us that we needed to see a specialist surgeon.

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Makary, a former Johns Hopkins University surgeon who wrote bestselling books on healthcare costs and modern medicine’s failures, was confirmed in March.

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In hospitals in which the reimbursement rates for appendectomies ran higher, for instance, the surgeons removed more appendixes.

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