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”). Doublet of chirurgeon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːd͡ʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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
• bottom surgeon
• brain surgeon
• cardiosurgeon
• cosmetic surgeon
• cryosurgeon
• cybersurgeon
• dental surgeon
• dermasurgeon
• electrosurgeon
• heart surgeon
• microsurgeon
• nanosurgeon
• neurosurgeon
• oral surgeon
• orthopedic surgeon
• otosurgeon
• plastic surgeon
• psychic surgeon
• psychosurgeon
• rocket surgeon
• staff surgeon
• supersurgeon
• surgeoncy
• surgeon-dentist
• surgeoness
• surgeonfish
• surgeon general
• surgeon-general
• surgeonlike
• surgeonly
• surgeon major
• surgeonry
• surgeonship
• surgeon's knot
• telesurgeon
• top surgeon
• 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 (mesllç)
• 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, 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, ahli 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
• Swahili: mpasuaji
• 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 (qirurg)
• Yiddish: כירורג m (khirurg)

Further reading

• surgeon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Inherited 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/

• Audio:

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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