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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surgeon
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dental surgeon
oral surgeon
veterinary surgeon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cosmetic
▪ Just like a cattle auction, the women parade themselves around the stage, making their cosmetic surgeons proud with cleavage aplenty.
▪ But she managed to find another cosmetic surgeon who would perform the completely unnecessary op.
dental
▪ Thus dental surgeons were to be even more out of pocket.
general
▪ On his retirement two years ago, he was senior consultant general surgeon at South Cleveland Hospital.
orthopaedic
▪ That, at least, is the view of Johnny Johnson, the orthopaedic surgeon who treated him.
▪ It is suggested that an orthopaedic surgeon at a different hospital should be instructed.
▪ One of the first on the scene to treat him at Bath was full back Jon Webb, an orthopaedic surgeon.
▪ It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon, a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon.
▪ Claire is one of three patients so far to undergo the procedure under the supervision of consultant orthopaedic surgeon Richard Montgomery.
▪ These are frequently presented to one of us, an orthopaedic surgeon, on his regular visits to Sarajevo.
orthopedic
▪ After finishing his studies in Boston, he returned to Los Angeles, becoming the first orthopedic surgeon in the Southwest.
▪ An orthopedic surgeon who asked not to be identified said he also hears increased patient complaints about waiting for bedpans or medications.
▪ The most orthopedic surgeons, specialists in bone injuries.
▪ And the medical staff has been augmented with an orthopedic and vascular surgeon.
▪ He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors recommended that he see orthopedic surgeons here.
▪ Likewise, the orthopedic surgeon keeps records and shares all his information with the player.
plastic
▪ He said the plastic surgeon drank vodka and sniffed cocaine during the operation, and the result was a ghastly mask.
▪ A plastic surgeon said no decision would be made on whether they needed reconstructive surgery until their wounds healed.
▪ Conley markets the nip-and-tuck package by going directly to about 35 San Franciscan plastic surgeons.
▪ But the big scene happens at a cocktail party in the home of a famous plastic surgeon.
▪ The plastic surgeon to the stars...
▪ Now, board-certified plastic surgeons appear on your television screen to sell you a new face.
veterinary
▪ In five years from 1796, Coleman furnished 44 veterinary surgeons to the army.
▪ Even animals have better protection than people - only qualified veterinary surgeons can operate on them.
▪ Esso said a veterinary surgeon was also standing by.
▪ The treatment of tendon injuries in competition horses is much argued about amongst horse owners and equine veterinary surgeons.
▪ Leese was a veterinary surgeon who had retired from his practice in Stamford in Lincolnshire in 1928.
▪ Students of the College called themselves veterinary surgeons, and in time this became an accepted designation.
▪ As a veterinary surgeon I would never turn my back on a sick or injured animal.
■ NOUN
brain
▪ I told Manders he was a brain surgeon.
▪ Steve Young: Go as a brain surgeon.
▪ This guy is clearly no brain surgeon.
▪ Having an accountant that makes mistakes is like having a brain surgeon who makes a mistake.
▪ A famous brain surgeon came up from Boston and operated on him for three hours.
consultant
▪ A few years ago, I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years.
▪ An increase in consultant surgeons would have several benefits.
▪ There were seven or eight consultant surgeons, 12 junior surgeons and four or five anaesthetists on emergency duties at the hospital.
▪ A lot of the casualties are taken to Furness General Hospital, which is where I work as a consultant surgeon.
eye
▪ As carefully as any eye surgeon he made one vertical and one horizontal incision on the plastic pocket.
▪ It's important that an eye surgeon should assess retinal detachment.
heart
▪ Britain has only 170 heart surgeons, and although 80 are in training, they will take six years to qualify.
▪ It's used by heart surgeon Stephen Westerby at the John Radcliffe.
▪ Bredekis, a former heart surgeon, said that 15 out of 17 of the Cabinet had previously smoked.
house
▪ The breakfast hour of the nurses was to be regulated by the house surgeon.
▪ All the house surgeons started to avoid her, preferring the pretty VADs.
▪ The matron, the house surgeon and the pupil each had a bedroom and a sitting room.
▪ It was also decided that the house surgeon should act as hospital secretary.
■ VERB
become
▪ In 1770 he became a surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary.
▪ After finishing his studies in Boston, he returned to Los Angeles, becoming the first orthopedic surgeon in the Southwest.
▪ I saw the surgeon who became my surgeon.
▪ He became a senior surgeon to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1872.
▪ In 1780 he entered the Royal Navy as surgeon's mate, becoming full surgeon in 1782.
▪ His brother, Herbert Lincoln, became an ophthalmic surgeon.
▪ Anderson specialized in eye diseases, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital.
operate
▪ Although the child is still alive, at the last minute the surgeon refuses to operate.
▪ The Army surgeons at Long Binh operated immediately, despite all the badly wounded troops they had to attend to.
▪ There could be many possible reasons why the surgeon refuses to operate.
▪ Even animals have better protection than people - only qualified veterinary surgeons can operate on them.
▪ Kind surgeons have offered to operate on him, if only we can get him over here.
▪ Michelle Howard says the surgeons who operated on her were negligent, but the hospital denies its staff did anything wrong.
perform
▪ Two surgeons will perform all the operations.
▪ But she managed to find another cosmetic surgeon who would perform the completely unnecessary op.
▪ No person was to be present at an operation other than with the consent of the surgeon who was performing it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A famous brain surgeon from Boston performed the operation.
▪ The surgeon told reporters that Sara was making good progress after the heart transplant.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A famous brain surgeon came up from Boston and operated on him for three hours.
▪ But the big scene happens at a cocktail party in the home of a famous plastic surgeon.
▪ Others compared him to a surgeon engaged in meticulous dissection.
▪ The surgeon apparently did not listen to his patient or respect her bodily integrity.
▪ The aim is to tell the surgeons about a survey which shows the most popular forms of cosmetic surgery.
▪ The breakfast hour of the nurses was to be regulated by the house surgeon.
▪ We can hardly suppress what the police surgeon has just told us.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surgeon

Surgeon \Sur"geon\, n. [OE. surgien, OF. surgien, contr. fr. chirurgien. See Chirurgeon.]

  1. 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.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of ch[ae]todont fishes of the family Teuthid[ae], or Acanthurid[ae], 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. --Dunglison. Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist. Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above. Surgeon general.

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surgeon

c.1300, sorgien, cirurgian "person who heals by manual operation on the patient," from Anglo-French surgien (13c.), from Old French surgien, cirurgien (13c.), from cirurgie "surgery," from Latin chirurgia "surgery," from Greek kheirourgia, from kheirourgos "working or done by hand," from kheir "hand" (see chiro-) + ergon "work" (see organ).

Wiktionary
surgeon

n. 1 One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. 2 A surgeonfish.

WordNet
surgeon

n. a physician who specializes in surgery [syn: operating surgeon, sawbones]

Wikipedia
Surgeon (disambiguation)

A surgeon is a person who performs surgery.

Surgeon may also refer to:

  • Surgeon General (disambiguation), various high-ranking medical officials
  • Surgeon (musician), the moniker of British electronic music producer and DJ, Anthony Child
  • In military usage, a unit's assigned physician (who may not be an "operating" surgeon per se)
    • Flight surgeon, Ship's surgeon, etc.
Surgeon (musician)

Surgeon is the pseudonym of Anthony Child (born 1 May 1971), an English electronic musician and DJ. Child releases music on his own labels Counterbalance and Dynamic Tension. Established imprints, such as Tresor, Soma, and Harthouse, have also released Surgeon's original material and remixes. He has also been recognized as one of the first wave of DJs to use Ableton Live and Final Scratch to supplement his DJ sets.

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a doctor who performs operations. Surgeons may be physicians, podiatrists, dentists, or veterinarians.

Usage examples of "surgeon".

This robotic surgeon, like all others in the known universe, thought I was allergic to sedatives.

He said if that were done they could amputate and save him, and the conversation ended in the surgeon giving the man to me to experiment on my theory.

When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.

Montgomery, in an excellent paper, advances the theory, which is very plausible, that intrauterine amputations are caused by contraction of bands or membranes of organized lymph encircling the limb and producing amputation by the same process of disjunctive atrophy that the surgeons induce by ligature.

White and his able young assistant surgeons had found antiscorbutic herbs and fruits growing wild, to which all but the most obstinate cases eventually yielded, and these were now being grown in the hospital garden.

A delicensed surgeon stacked twenty thousand in cash in his briefcase and prepared to saw off the right leg of a man afflicted with the rare condition apotemnophilia, the sexual desire to have limbs removed.

Gallagher, the surgeon for the appendectomy, had a firmer grip on his emotions than the medical-school professor had.

Demmet administered a small amount of curare to relax the stomach muscles, making the appendectomy that much easier for the surgeon to perform.

David once said what a surgeon he would have made, and Father Martin made a weak joke about appendices being made of damask.

The surgeon may perform an appendectomy only to find that the appendix is normal.

The surgeon performed an elegant midline opening and single-layer anastomosis of considerable facility.

It was common in the early days of antisepsis for a skeptical surgeon to half-heartedly try the lengthy, exasperating techniques on one or two patients, find that the patients still became infected, and generalize from this experience to conclude the system was worthless.

More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.

At the same time it was ordered that a physician and surgeon of their own appointing should see Wilkes, and report their opinion on his case.

America raised, not in condemnation of all experimentation upon animals, but solely in protest against its cruelty and secrecy, and in appeal for its reform, was that of the leading American surgeon of his time, Professor Henry J.