surgeon | | |
n. (person) | 1. operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon | a physician who specializes in surgery. |
| ~ amputator | a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb. |
| ~ cosmetic surgeon, plastic surgeon | a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face). |
| ~ doc, doctor, physician, dr., md, medico | a licensed medical practitioner.; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" |
| ~ brain surgeon, neurosurgeon | someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain). |
| ~ beaumont, william beaumont | United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853). |
| ~ alexis carrel, carrel | French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944). |
| ~ cowper, william cowper | English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709). |
| ~ de bakey, michael ellis de bakey | United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908). |
| ~ gorgas, william crawford gorgas | United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920). |
| ~ baron lister, joseph lister, lister | English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912). |
| ~ james parkinson, parkinson | English surgeon (1755-1824). |
| ~ walter reed, reed | United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902). |
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