surgeon
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1. A medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery.
Unfortunately, the treatment involves the surgeon's knife.
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2. A doctor in the navy.
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1. Middle English from Anglo-Norman French surgien, contraction of Old French serurgien, based on Latin chirurgia, from Greek kheirourgia ‘handiwork, surgery’, from kheir ‘hand’ + ergon ‘work’.

