surgeon
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
surgeon/ˈsɜːʤən/
▶noun
- 1 a medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery.
- 2 a doctor in the navy.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. surgien, contr. of OFr. serurgien, based on L. chirurgia, from Gk kheirourgia ‘handiwork, surgery’.
'surgeon' also found in these Oxford entries:
arborist
- bone-setter
- Broca's area
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- Colles' fracture
- Cushing's syndrome
- dental surgeon
- doctor
- dresser
- Dupuytren's contracture
- Hashimoto's disease
- hobday
- house officer
- intern
- Johne's disease
- listeria
- medical practitioner
- obstetrician
- Paget's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- plastic surgery
- Pott's fracture
- salmonella
- sawbones
- scalpel
- surgeon general
- surgeon's knot
- surgery
- tenaculum
- tree surgeon
- vet
- veterinarian
- veterinary surgeon
- VS
- Wilms' tumour
