surgeon
noun /ˈsɜːdʒən/
/ˈsɜːrdʒən/
- a doctor who is trained to perform surgery (= medical operations that involve cutting open a person’s body)
- a brain/heart surgeon
- Surgeons performed two operations on him yesterday.
Wordfindersee also dental surgeon, oral surgeon, plastic surgeon, tree surgeon, veterinary surgeon- cure
- doctor
- examine
- medicine
- patient
- practice
- prescribe
- receptionist
- specialist
- surgeon
Extra ExamplesTopics Medicineb2, Jobsb2- He is determined to qualify as a surgeon.
- Many people are terrified at the thought of the surgeon's knife.
- Surgeons removed her right leg above the knee.
- the surgeon who will operate on you
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- distinguished
- eminent
- leading
- …
- be
- work as
- become
- …
- operate
- perform something
- insert something
- …
- the surgeon’s knife
Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French surgien, contraction of Old French serurgien, based on Latin chirurgia, from Greek kheirourgia ‘handiwork, surgery’, from kheir ‘hand’ + ergon ‘work’.