as in physician
a medical professional who performs operations that involve cutting into someone's body in order to repair or remove damaged or diseased parts
a brain surgeon She worked as a surgeon for twenty years.
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Recent Examples of surgeon
This creates delays in patient care, from nurses having to run across the campus to fetch IV poles to cardiovascular surgeons having to clean their own offices after each patient, Siebers said.
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Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Neil Hopper, a 49-year-old vascular surgeon in Truro, Cornwall County in southwestern England, received a jail sentence of two years and eight months after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud and three counts of possessing extreme pornography, per the BBC and The Guardian.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Two tourniquets had to be applied to stanch the bleeding, and he was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where surgeons performed emergency surgery to save his leg.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Part surgeon, part mechanic — as seen sawing away at a leg in EW's exclusive Fall Movie Preview image, above — days spent filming in Victor's lab were some of the actor's favorite.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
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Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Neil Hopper, a 49-year-old vascular surgeon in Truro, Cornwall County in southwestern England, received a jail sentence of two years and eight months after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud and three counts of possessing extreme pornography, per the BBC and The Guardian.
—Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Two tourniquets had to be applied to stanch the bleeding, and he was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where surgeons performed emergency surgery to save his leg.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Part surgeon, part mechanic — as seen sawing away at a leg in EW's exclusive Fall Movie Preview image, above — days spent filming in Victor's lab were some of the actor's favorite.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surgeon
Noun
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Cassidy, a longtime physician, questioned Kennedy.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
5 Sep. 2025
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That’s how three American physicians described the Gaza Strip after spending several weeks treating the sick and wounded there last month.—
Brendan Rascius,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Julia Norem, now a doctor in the Fayetteville area, lost her father Walt Norem in that plane crash.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sutton-Schulman got L settled in, met with his doctors and, for the first time in months, felt some hope.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Abby quietly married Josh, an army veteran and nurse, in 2021, though news of their nuptials didn’t break until 2024.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Yet, bizarrely, the TV show undercuts this angle by inventing a serial killer nurse from whole cloth, a move that shifts the blame away from systemic forces and toward a motiveless scoundrel.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Surgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surgeon. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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