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/sˈərdʒən/ /sˈərdʒɪn/ Listen

noun

Surgeon n.

One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.

Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary.

Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist.

Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above.

Surgeon general.

(a)

In the United States army, the chief of the medical department.

(b)

In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department.

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Etymology of 'Surgeon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Surgeon" Quotes from Famous Books

... should not be attended with any inconvenience, the surgeon to preserve and embalm my corpse, to be interred in a military manner on shore, in whatever port the ship may put in; and the surgeon to be presented with 30l. for his trouble. I bequeath to my brother officers, Captains Thomas Coates, Martyn, Keppel, Rodney, and Timothy Brett, a mourning ...

— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross

... was a decent sort of fellow, but young, and he didn't see his way to interfering. There had been several mistakes made in that hospital, and the C.O. had been rather heavily strafed, which meant of course that everyone under him was strafed worse, on the good old principle of passing it on. That surgeon's idea was to avoid trouble, if possible. Somebody, he said, had made a mistake, but it was too late, then, to set things right, and the best thing to do was to say nothing about it. He was sorry for Binny, but ...

— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham

... aspect of the deeds of war. About daylight on the morning following our bombardment, it being my morning watch, I was ordered to take the surgeon and assistant surgeon ashore. There were many corpses, but no living or wounded to be seen. One object only dwells ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... of his physicians, "there is not a surgeon in the army who would permit a common soldier to leave the hospital in the state in which you are, for he would be sure that his patient would reenter it ...

— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott

... time by the population of the town on one side, and on the south by a vast horde of Arabs and Somalis, who suddenly appeared over the sand-hills mounted on camels. They alone had been made prisoners. All others had been shot, including the officers, the port surgeon, and the ...

— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon

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