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surgeon Definition

sur·geon (sʉrjən)

noun

a doctor who specializes in surgery, as distinguished from a physician

Etymology: ME surgien < OFr cirurgien < cirurgie, surgery

surgeon Synonyms

surgeon

n.

specialist, specialist in surgery, surgical expert, operator, interventionist, consultant, sawbones*; see also doctor 1.

surgeon Usage Examples

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.
surgeon Quotes

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.

—Breslin,Jimmy

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

—Map,Walter

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.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

Un Picasso e¤  tudie un objet comme un chirurgien disse'  que un cadavre. A Picasso studies an object like a surgeon dissects a corpse.

—Kostrowitzki

If there's a plastic surgeon who claims to be responsible for this face, then New York State will decertify him immediately.

—Cuomo, Mario Matthew

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.

—Boyer, Dr Ernest L

Thurber did not write the waya surgeon operates, he wrotethewayachildskipsrope,thewayamousewaltzes.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

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.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

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