surgeon

  • 21surgeon — (sur jon) s. m. 1°   Branche qui naît du collet ou de la souche, s élève dès qu elle sort de terre, et est susceptible d être séparée avec une partie de la racine, et de former ainsi un nouvel individu ; on le dit particulièrement des… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 22surgeon — [14] A surgeon is etymologically someone who does ‘hand work’ – that is, a medical practitioner who performs manual operations on the body, as opposed to administering drugs. The word comes via Anglo Norman surgien from Vulgar Latin *chirurgiānus …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 23surgeon */*/ — UK [ˈsɜː(r)dʒ(ə)n] / US [ˈsɜrdʒən] noun [countable] Word forms surgeon : singular surgeon plural surgeons a doctor who is trained to perform operations that involve cutting open someone s body, usually in a hospital …

    English dictionary

  • 24surgeon — [14] A surgeon is etymologically someone who does ‘hand work’ – that is, a medical practitioner who performs manual operations on the body, as opposed to administering drugs. The word comes via Anglo Norman surgien from Vulgar Latin *chirurgiānus …

    Word origins

  • 25SURGEON — n. m. T. d’Agriculture 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 désigne un Descendant.… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 26surgeon — noun /ˈsɜːdʒən,ˈsɝdʒən/ One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son. Syn: sawbones …

    Wiktionary

  • 27surgeon — sur|geon [ˈsə:dʒən US ˈsə:r ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: surgien, from Old French cirurgien, from cirurgie; SURGERY] a doctor who does operations in a hospital →↑dental surgeon …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28surgeon — noun (C) a doctor who does operations in hospital see also: dental surgeon …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29Surgeon General of the United States — Incumbent: VADM Regina Benjamin since: 11 January 2010 …

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  • 30Surgeon General — can have several different meanings.In the United States: *The Surgeon General of the United States is the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the U.S.… …

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