surgeon

surgeon

See also: Surgeon

English

Surgeons at work.

Alternative forms

• chirurgeon (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝd͡ʒən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒən

Noun

surgeon (plural surgeons, feminine surgeoness)

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.

2. A surgeonfish.

Usage notes

• In the UK, a surgeon holds a fellowship or a postgraduate degree in order to be known as a surgeon. For instance: FRCS or Master of Surgery
• In the United States, a surgeon belongs to a subcategory of doctors (physicians) whose practice is largely or exclusively focused on surgery. They generally hold a credential from a medical body regulating the specialty in which they practice.

Synonyms

• sawbones (slang)
• chirurgeon (archaic)

Derived terms

• aesthetic surgeon
• barber surgeon
• brain surgeon
• cardiosurgeon
• cosmetic surgeon
• cryosurgeon
• cybersurgeon
• dental surgeon
• dermasurgeon
• electrosurgeon
• heart surgeon
• microsurgeon
• nanosurgeon
• neurosurgeon
• orthopedic surgeon
• otosurgeon
• plastic surgeon
• psychic surgeon
• psychosurgeon
• staff surgeon
• supersurgeon
• surgeoncy
• surgeoness
• surgeonfish
• surgeon general
• surgeonlike
• surgeonly
• surgeon major
• surgeonry
• surgeonship
• surgeon's knot
• telesurgeon
• tree surgeon
• veterinary surgeon

 

Translations

doctor who performs surgery

Albanian: kirurg (sq) m Arabic: جَرَّاح‎ (ar) m (jarrāḥ), جَرَّاحَة‎‎ f (jarrāḥa) Moroccan Arabic: جراح‎ m (jarrāḥ) Armenian: վիրաբույժ (hy) (virabuyž) Asturian: ciruxanu m, ceruxanu m Azerbaijani: cərrah (az) Bashkir: хирург (xirurg) Belarusian: хіру́рг m (xirúrh) Bulgarian: хиру́рг m (hirúrg), хиру́ржка f (hirúržka) Catalan: cirurgià (ca), cirurgiana (ca) f Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏰᏠᎯ (didayetlohi) Chinese: Mandarin: 外科醫生／外科医生 (zh) (wàikē yīshēng) Czech: chirurg (cs) m, chirurgyně f, chiruržka f Danish: kirurg (da) c Dutch: chirurg (nl) m Esperanto: ĥirurgo, kirurgo, ĥirurgiisto, kirurgiisto Estonian: kirurg Finnish: kirurgi (fi) French: chirurgien (fr) m, chirurgienne (fr) f Galician: cirurxián (gl) m, cirurxiá f Georgian: ქირურგი (kirurgi) German: Chirurg (de) m, Chirurgin (de) f, Wundarzt (de) m (historical), Wundärztin f (historical) Greek: χειρουργός (el) c (cheirourgós) Ancient: χειρουργός m (kheirourgós) Hebrew: מְנַתֵּחַ‎ (he) m (m'natéakh) Hindi: शल्यचिकित्सक m (śalyacikitsak), जर्राह (hi) m (jarrāh), सर्जन (hi) m (sarjan) Hungarian: sebész (hu) Icelandic: skurðlæknir (is) m Indonesian: dokter bedah (id), ahli bedah (id) Irish: máinlia m Italian: chirurgo (it) m Japanese: (a surgery doctor) 外科医 (ja) (げかい, gekai), (a doctor who performs on the surgery) 執刀医 (しっとうい, shittōi) Kalmyk: месллч (mesllch) Kazakh: оташы m (otaşy), хирург (xirurg) Khmer: ពេទ្យវះកាត់ (pɛɛt vĕəh kat) Korean: 외과의사(外科醫師) (oegwauisa), 외과의(外科醫) (oegwaui), 집도의(執刀醫) (jipdoui) (operating surgeon) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: emeliyatker (ku), kîrûrg (ku), operator (ku), cerah (ku), birînsaz (ku) Kyrgyz: хирург (ky) (hirurg) Latin: chīrurgus m Latvian: ķirurgs m, ķirurģe f Lithuanian: chirurgas m Macedonian: хирург m (hirurg) Malay: pakar bedah Maori: tākuta poka Marathi: सर्जन (sarjan) Norman: seurgien m Norwegian: Bokmål: kirurg m Occitan: cirurgian (oc) m Old Portuguese: celorgião Ossetian: хирург (xirurg) Pashto: جراح‎ (ps) m (jarrāh) Persian: جراح‎ (fa) (jarrâh) Polish: chirurg (pl) m, chirurżka f Portuguese: cirurgião (pt) m Romanian: chirurg (ro) m Russian: хиру́рг (ru) m (xirúrg) Scottish Gaelic: lighiche m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хѝрург m, хиру̀ргиња f (Bosnian, Serbian), кѝрург m, киру̀ргиња f (Croatian) Roman: hìrurg (sh) m, hirùrginja f (Bosnian, Serbian), kìrurg (sh) m, kirùrginja (sh) f (Croatian) Slovak: chirurg (sk) m, chirurgička (sk) f Slovene: kirurg (sl) m, kirurginja f Spanish: cirujano (es) m, cirujana (es) f Swedish: kirurg (sv) c Tagalog: siruhano, maninistis Tajik: ҷарроҳ (jarroh) Tatar: хирург (xirurg) Thai: ศัลยแพทย์ (th) (sǎn-lá-yá-pɛ̂ɛt) Tibetan: གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ (gshag gcod sman pa) Turkish: cerrah (tr) Turkmen: hirurg Ukrainian: хіру́рг m (xirúrh) Urdu: جراح‎ m (jarrāh) Uzbek: jarroh (uz), xirurg (uz) Vietnamese: bác sĩ phẫu thuật Walloon: cérudjin (wa) m, cérudjinne f Welsh: llawfeddyg (cy) m Yakut: хирург (xirurg) Yiddish: כירורג‎ m (khirurg)

Further reading

• surgeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Middle French sourgon, sourjon, from Old French sorjon, sourjon (“source”) (1200s), from a conjugated form of sourdre (see sourjant) + -on, from Latin surgere. The modern spelling dates from 1541.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.ʒɔ̃/

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Noun

surgeon m (plural surgeons)

1. (botany) shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)
2. (figurative) offshoot, rebirth (something that is reborn or grows out of something else again)
3. (archaic) offspring, progeny (descendant of someone)

Further reading

• “surgeon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• songeur