surgeon
/ˈsɝd͡ʒən/ noun B1- One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. · The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.
- A surgeonfish.
Plural surgeons
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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
Kent, who is a surgeon, was prepared to stay with me.
If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician—little more than a senior student.
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