Definition of surgeon Surgeon

/sɚˈʤʌn/ - [serjun] - sur•geon

We found 9 definitions of surgeon from 8 different sources.

What does surgeon mean?

Noun Plural: surgeons
surgeon - a physician who specializes in surgery
		operating surgeon, sawbones
		physician, doc, dr., medico, doctor, md children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office; "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"
		amputator a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb
		cosmetic surgeon, plastic surgeon a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face)
		brain surgeon, neurosurgeon someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain)

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surgeon (Noun)
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

surgeon (n.)
One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
surgeon (n.)
Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.

surgeon
sur′jun, n. one who treats injuries or diseases by manual operations.—ns. Sur′geoncy, Sur′geonship, the office or employment of a surgeon in the army or navy; Sur′gery, act and art of treating lesions or malformations of the human body by manual operations, mediate and immediate: a place for surgical operations.—adj. Sur′gical, pertaining to surgeons, or to surgery: done by surgery.—adv. Sur′gically. [A doublet of chirurgeon (q.v.).]

surgeon
A competent medical officer, appointed to attend the sick and wounded on board a ship of war, for which purpose he has, according to the rate of the ship, from one to two assistants, once called surgeon's mates, but latterly assistant-surgeons (which see).

surgeon
A staff-officer of the medical department. He has the rank of major, but “shall not in virtue of such rank be entitled to command in the line or other staff departments of the army.”