surgeonnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsɜː.dʒən/us/ˈsɝː.dʒən/C1 a doctor who is specially trained to perform medical operations
Examples
- The surgeon makes a small incision into which a tube is inserted.
- Winifred nurtured ambitions for her daughter to be a surgeon.
- The surgeon did everything in her power to save him.
- The surgeon was accused of negligence.
- His finger was cut off when he caught it in a machine, but the surgeon was able to sew it back on.
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Medical treatment: surgery
- ablate
- adrenalectomy
- anaesthesiology
- anastomose
- anesthesiology
- circumcise
- collagen
- eviscerate
- facelift
- frontal lobotomy
- implant
- keyhole surgery
- laminectomy
- laparoscopic
- laparoscopy
- laparotomy
- ligation
- nose job
- pump out sth
- transplant
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