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SURGEON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A physician who specializes in surgery
Synonyms:
operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("surgeon" is a kind of...):
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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))
Context examples:
The surgeon takes a healthy piece of vein from the leg or artery from the chest or wrist.
(Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
A surgeon with advanced training in treating diseases and disorders of the oral cavity.
(Oral surgeon, NCI Thesaurus)
She must be taken to their house; all must go to their house; and await the surgeon's arrival there.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A surgeon who specializes in the treatment of children.
(Pediatric surgeon, NCI Dictionary)
A surgeon!’ they cried. ‘A tailor!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Rochester entered, and with him the surgeon he had been to fetch.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She had come to the point where she could not bear the pain of her damaged hip any longer and made the appointment with her surgeon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A scientific and educational association of surgeons with the main goal to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice.
(American College of Surgeons, NCI Thesaurus)
The surgeon gave him a composing draught and ordered us to leave him undisturbed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A surgeon can reconstruct the breast in many ways.
(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
