Definition of Surgeon

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Surgeon

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.

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.

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Surgeon Quotations

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Rodney Dangerfield

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.
Sharon Osbourne

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier

Surgeon Translations

surgeon in Afrikaans is chirurg
surgeon in Danish is kirurg
surgeon in Dutch is heelmeester, chirurg
surgeon in French is chirurgien
surgeon in German is Chirurg
surgeon in Italian is chirurgo
surgeon in Spanish is cirujano, quirurgo
surgeon in Swedish is kirurg

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