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Surgeon
//ˈsɝd͡ʒən// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Noun
- 1 One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
"The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son."
- 2 a physician who specializes in surgery wordnet
- 3 A surgeonfish.
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Occupational surname from surgeon.
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