surgeon
sur·geon (sʉr′jən)
noun
a doctor who specializes in surgery, as distinguished from a physician
Etymology: ME surgien < OFr cirurgien < cirurgie, surgery
surgeon
n.
Possessives
- scalpel: The other woman is a product of a surgeon's scalpel and a course of liposuction.
- knife: Most of us would go a long way to avoid the surgeon's knife.
Converse of object
- practice: Society of Practicing Veterinary Surgeons - promotes the interest of practicing veterinary surgeons in private practice.
- consult: Would she have consulted a plastic surgeon or a magician?
- dispense: Back to top As a veterinary surgeon, may I now start an Internet business dispensing other veterinary surgeons ' prescriptions?
- qualify: At the end of my time at Yeldall Manor I will be a fully qualified tree surgeon.
- appoint: In 1859 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the London Hospital.
- refer: Contact Us Referring veterinary surgeons should contact the Equine Referral Hospital by telephone on 0117 928 9621.
Adjective modifier
- veterinary: Neither a second opinion veterinary surgeon nor a referral practice should ever seek to take over the case.
- orthopedic: The main contacts will be orthopedic surgeons in theaters.
- maxillofacial: Dr. Steve Worrall is a consultant oral & maxillofacial surgeon at St Luke's Hospital, Bradford.
- vascular: John Scurr, senior consultant vascular surgeon who organized the meeting attended by airline doctors said?
- ent: Surgery is required to aspirate abscesses; consult with an ENT surgeon.
- ophthalmic: All surgeons at the Life Sciences Laser Institute are consultant level ophthalmic surgeons who are on the General Medical Council Specialist Register.
Noun used with modifier
- Ent: PROTOCOL 6 - Surgical 1 The consultant ENT surgeon will perform the cochlear implant surgery.
- cataract: Training and placement of cataract surgeons in rural hospitals would also enhance provision of eye care for the rural population.
- consultant: He discussed the case with the consultant surgeon, who agreed to review Mrs Y later.
- barber: There is even a barber surgeon to give you a shave - or let your blood.
- plastic: There are specialist burns consultants and plastic surgeons as well as nursing and care staff on site.
- brain: I had a doctor flown in by helicopter a brain surgeon.
They're killing the game with this phoney mystiqueötelling people that a guy needs the abilities of a brain surgeon to play left-guard for the Colts. Football is simply a game to keep the coalminers off the streets.
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
The cliche¤ of whites being ignorant of blacks was not only true, but understandable.Oh, but we knew them with the intimacy of a surgeon's scalpel.
Un Picasso e¤ tudie un objet comme un chirurgien disse' que un cadavre. A Picasso studies an object like a surgeon dissects a corpse.
If there's a plastic surgeon who claims to be responsible for this face, then New York State will decertify him immediately.
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.
Thurber did not write the waya surgeon operates, he wrotethewayachildskipsrope,thewayamousewaltzes.
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
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