surgeon
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1 medical doctor (n.) B2 Upper Intermediate Medicinea doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
a medical practitioner qualified to perform surgery, involving the physical manipulation or incision of a patient's body.
ExampleThe surgeon explained how the operation would fix her broken knee.
ExampleThe chief surgeon performed the delicate procedure with remarkable precision, despite the complexity of the patient's underlying condition.
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2 a type of fish (n.) C2 Proficiency Technical Sciencea colourful tropical fish that has sharp spines near its tail.
any of various tropical marine fishes of the family Acanthuridae, characterised by blade-like spines on either side of the tail.
ExampleWe saw a bright blue surgeon swimming near the coral reef.
ExampleDivers often encounter the striped surgeon in these waters, though they must be careful of the sharp spines that give the species its name.
- surgeonfish
- tang
From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.
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