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Definition of Surgeon

Surgeon

  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. 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 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

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

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

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