How to Use surgeon in a Sentence

surgeon

noun
  • The surgeon killed was Dr. Benjamin Mauck, the clinic said.
    Jacob Wilt, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • The surgeon has 20 seconds to play with to be able to save someone's life.
    Pierre Thomas, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The console allows students to have the same view as the lead surgeon.
    Neha Mukherjee, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • From there, the surgeon operates on the baby, while keeping it in the uterus.
    Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Please keep the prayers coming for Scot, the surgeons, for the donor and his family who lost their loved one.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The second part is told by Lena, a young surgeon and good friend of Magos who, for a time, was in love with her.
    Gabino Iglesias, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Moreover, the techniques of most surgeons, to put it bluntly, are just not that good.
    WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
  • By the time the surgeon entered the operating room, the wrong leg had already been prepped.
    Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Spunky Ava, who dreams of becoming a surgeon and traveling the world, is not the kind to sit around and mope.
    Susan Young, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Enter eye surgeon Pei-Chang Wu, whose journey of discovery serves as the spine of the piece.
    Longreads, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Previously, the 65-year-old surgeon was seen with a lighter look and a dark gray hairdo.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The surgeon who operated on the pope said the pontiff is ready to resume working.
    Francis X. Rocca, WSJ, 20 July 2023
  • About a week after all three surgeons returned home, the nurse caring for the boy sent them a photo of the boy smiling and hugging her.
    Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 19 Nov. 2023
  • In addition to his duties as a surgeon, Smith served as vice president of the Texas school board.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Karp, the Nashville transplant surgeon, said too few donations is the root of the issue in the transplant system.
    Malena Carollo and Ben Tanen, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • To place the 25 chips in Bussard’s brain, surgeons performed a routine craniotomy to remove a piece of his skull.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Susana received 80% of the organ, while surgeons sliced off the remaining 20% to give to Cooper.
    Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Meet Ohtani’s surgeon, who fixes sports’ biggest stars and saved the two-way player’s $700-million arm.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Among the dead were two boys aged seven and 16, and a 9-year-old girl, according to Summaiya Syed Tariq, a surgeon with the local police force.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • To thread the needle between the walls at such speed requires the precision of a surgeon (which must explain why Dr. Wilson rides so fast).
    Rennie Scaysbrook, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
  • Among those injured, according to the surgeon, was a 16-year-old boy shot with four bullets at the hospital gate.
    Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The author is a breast surgeon and an associate professor of surgery at UCLA.
    Nimmi Kapoor, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • An oral surgeon will then make an incision in your gums to expose the tooth and bone, remove the tooth and bone's connective tissue, remove the tooth, and stitch the wound closed.
    Korin Miller, Health, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Ryan also suffered a fracture in her sacrum, at the junction where the spine connects to the pelvis, said another one of her surgeons, Andrew Mo.
    Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Sadly, his friends sold his body to a wealthy surgeon and anatomist (John Hunter) who made Byrne’s skeleton the centerpiece of his collection.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • For the first time ever, surgeons have transplanted a whole human eyeball.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
  • An orthopedic surgeon should be able to, ahem, straighten you out.
    Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The model covered her mouth with her hands in surprise before nodding to the surgeon’s proposal.
    Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • During a trabeculectomy, the surgeon will make a small incision in the white part of your eye (the sclera) and remove a portion of the tissue so the eye can drain better.
    Amy Marturana Winderl, Cpt, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The orthopedic surgeon was rescued near Saugatuck Dunes State Park.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023

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