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surgeon

noun
 
🔊/ˈsɜːdʒən/
🔊/ˈsɜːrdʒən/
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  1. a doctor who is trained to perform surgery (= medical operations that involve cutting open a person’s body)外科医生
    • a brain/heart surgeon脑/心外科医生
    • Surgeons performed two operations on him yesterday.昨天医生为他做了两个手术。
    compare physician
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    see also dental surgeon, oral surgeon, plastic surgeon, tree surgeon, veterinary surgeon
    Extra Examples
    • He is determined to qualify as a surgeon.他决心取得外科医生资格。
    • Many people are terrified at the thought of the surgeon's knife.许多人一想到做手术就害怕。
    • Surgeons removed her right leg above the knee.外科医生截去了她右腿膝盖及以下部份。
    • the surgeon who will operate on you将为你做手术的医生
    Topics Medicineb2, Jobsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • distinguished
    • eminent
    • leading
    • …
    verb + surgeon
    • be
    • work as
    • become
    • …
    surgeon + verb
    • operate
    • perform something
    • insert something
    • …
    phrases
    • the surgeon’s knife
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    Word OriginMiddle 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’.