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Synonyms:

operating surgeon, surgeon

Examples:

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William Beaumont

United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853)

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)

William Cowper

English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709)

Michael Ellis De Bakey

United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908)

William Crawford Gorgas

United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920)

Joseph Lister

English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)

James Parkinson

English surgeon (1755-1824)

Walter Reed

United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

Types:

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)

Type of:

Dr., MD, doc, doctor, medico, physician

a licensed medical practitioner