Synonyms for surgeon
ˈsɜr dʒənsur·geon

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1. surgeonnoun

   Synonyms:
   sawbones

2. surgeonnoun

   One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.

   The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.

   Synonyms:
   sawbones

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1. surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbonesnoun

   a physician who specializes in surgery

   Synonyms:
   sawbones, operating surgeon

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1. List of paraphrases for "surgeon":

   al-jarrah, surgeons, surgery, aesthetic, doctor, surg

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1. List of known nicknames for "Surgeon":

   The Surgeon, Anthony Child, Child, Anthony

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1. Samuel Achilefu:

   The primary goal of the technology is to make sure that the surgeon does not operate in the blind, it's to make the cancer cells light up like Christmas trees.

2. Matthew Schulman:

   Body parts are removed because of trauma and cancer, and there’s a whole field of reconstructive plastic surgery to rebuild these structures and restore normal function— the removal idea is something that no plastic surgeon is going to do, the danger with that is people are going to do what they want to do, and it forces them to go down a different route such as having these [procedures] done by non-medical professionals in settings that may not be appropriate.

3. John Avalos:

   Just like we have on all packs of cigarettes, smoking cigarettes has been known by the surgeon general to cause cancer. We would love to see this idea spread all over the country.

4. Tim Gardner:

   The surgeon told me that a couple of centimeters and she wouldn't be walking and a couple of centimeters more and she wouldn't be alive.

5. Nicholas Chamfort:

   An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.