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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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.
House-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital.
I usually give up one day to pure amusement when I come to town, so I spent it at the Museum of the College of Surgeons.”
Kent, who is a surgeon, was prepared to stay with me.
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