surgeon
11surgeon — [sʉr′jən] n. [ME surgien < OFr cirurgien < cirurgie,SURGERY] a doctor who specializes in surgery, as distinguished from a physician …
12surgeon — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ distinguished, eminent, leading, renowned, top ▪ brilliant, good, skilled ▪ pioneering …
13surgeon — n. 1) a flight; orthopedic (AE), orthopaedic (BE); plastic; veterinary (BE) surgeon 2) a tree surgeon 3) a surgeon performs operations, operates (on patients) * * * [ sɜːdʒ(ə)n] plastic veterinary (BE) surgeon orthopedic (AE) orthopaedic (BE) …
14Surgeon — This article is about the medical specialty. For other uses, see Surgeon (disambiguation). Sawbones redirects here. For the artificial bone, see Pacific Research Laboratories. Surgeon Surgeons in an operating room Occupation Activity sectors …
15Surgeon — A physician who treats disease, injury, or deformity by operative or manual methods. A medical doctor specialized in the removal of organs, masses and tumors and in doing other procedures using a knife (scalpel). The definition of a surgeon has… …
16Surgeon — This is an occupational name for a person who performed operations, mostly amputations, deriving from the Middle English and Old French term sur(ri)gien , which itself is derived from the Latin chirurgianus , from chirurgia handiwork, Greek… …
17surgeon — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)ʤ(ə)n[/t]] surgeons N COUNT A surgeon is a doctor who is specially trained to perform surgery. → See also plastic surgeon ...a heart surgeon …
18surgeon — physician, doctor, surgeon The normal word for a medical practitioner in general contexts is doctor (abbreviated as a title to Dr). Physician is familiar from the proverb Physician, heal thyself (Luke 4:23) and has the same range of meaning as… …
19surgeon — n. 1 a medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery. 2 a medical officer in a navy or army or military hospital. Phrases and idioms: surgeon fish any tropical marine fish of the genus Acanthurus with movable lancet shaped spines on each… …
20SURGEON — s. m. T. d Agricult. et de Jardinage. Rejeton qui sort du tronc, du pied d un arbre. Cet arbre n a point poussé de rameaux, il en est seulement sorti quelques surgeons. Couper les surgeons. Il se dit aussi figurément, et signifie, Un descendant …
