surgeon

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

English

Wikipedia has an article on: Surgeon

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French serurgien et al.), from a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”).

Pronunciation

Noun

surgeon (plural surgeons)

  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.

Usage notes

Synonyms

Derived terms

French

Noun

surgeon m. (plural surgeons)

  1. (botany) sprout
  2. offspring

Anagrams

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Tue Sep 7 12:43:32 2010. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Hide]▼
[Hide]▲