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    OPERATING SURGEON

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A physician who specializes in surgeryplay

    Synonyms:

    operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("operating surgeon" is a kind of...):

    doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "operating surgeon"):

    amputator (a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb)

    cosmetic surgeon; plastic surgeon (a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face))

    brain surgeon; neurosurgeon (someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain))

    Instance hyponyms:

    Beaumont; William Beaumont (United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853))

    Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))

    Cowper; William Cowper (English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709))

    De Bakey; Michael Ellis De Bakey (United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908))

    Gorgas; William Crawford Gorgas (United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920))

    Baron Lister; Joseph Lister; Lister (English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912))

    James Parkinson; Parkinson (English surgeon (1755-1824))

    Reed; Walter Reed (United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902))

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