surgeon

A physician specializing in surgery.

One who practises surgery; one who performs manual operations on a patient; a chirurgeon.

In Great Britain, one who has passed the examinations of the Royal College of Surgeons, but has not the degree of M. D.; a general practitioner.

A medical officer in the army, or in a military hospital.

A surgeon-fish.

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.

Any one of numerous species of chætodont fishes of the family Teuthidæ, or Acanthuridæ, 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.

one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary.

a dental surgeon; a dentist.

See def. 2, above.