Word Finder - surgeon

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

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

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A surgeonfish.

He's my surgeon and the best there is.

I'm assuming he kept you because you're the best surgeon there is.

The chances he knew her surgeon were negligible.

My father is a surgeon with a specialty in cardiology, especially cardiac catheterization.

And sometimes the surgeon is enabled by operation to give great relief, though the removal of the growth itself is impracticable.

After practising for a time at Marseilles he was made chief surgeon to Mehemet Ali, viceroy of Egypt.

In 1815 he was appointed to the chair of clinical surgery, and became head surgeon at the Hotel-Dieu.

Impatiently waiting for her longtime surgeon, she pushed herself off the table and crossed to the desk, where a small folder sat.

He was educated at the medical school and was at first an army surgeon.

In his third year he was taken up to London, inspected by the court surgeon, prayed over by the court chaplains and stroked and presented with a piece of gold by Queen Anne.

Apprenticed at the age of sixteen to a surgeon, he soon went to Paris, studied medicine and surgery there, and, having qualified as a mastersurgeon, settled down to practice at Mantes.

Maybe you need a new surgeon.

During the American Civil War he was consulting surgeon in the Mower Army Hospital, near Philadelphia, and acquired considerable reputation for his operations in cases of gun-shot wounds.

From his writings it would appear that the offices of physician, surgeon and apothecary were already considered as distinct professions.

Her face wore the proud expression of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the public to appreciate his skill.

He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

In 1900-1901 Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), a surgeon in the United States army, proved by experiments on voluntary human subjects that the infection was spread by the Stegomyia mosquito,' and the prevention of the disease was then undertaken by Major William C. Gorgas - all patients being screened and mosquitoes practically exterminated.'

As a rule, there is one gaol in each district, under the management of the civil surgeon.

In 1651 the English reached Hugli, which was at that time the chief port of Bengal; about that year Gabriel Boughton, a surgeon, obtained from the Mogul viceroy permission for the English to trade in Bengal.

Surgery is required to aspirate abscesses; consult with an ENT surgeon.

Having rendered himself obnoxious to the government during the political commotions that followed the French Revolution, he was imprisoned for over a year; and on his release in 1795 he withdrew to France, only to return to his native country as a surgeon in the French army, whose progress he followed as far as Venice.

McConnel, meteorologists; and Dr. Forbes Mackay, surgeon.

He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1884, was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of first-lieutenant in the U.S. army in 1886, and at once joined Capt.

In 1859 he founded a revolutionary journal at Genoa, but, shortly afterwards, joined as surgeon the Garibaldian corps in the war of 1859.

As his parents were poor, and could not afford to allow him to follow a purely scientific career, he became a surgeon of the Prussian army.

Disliking his father's trade of bookbinding, for which he was intended, he left home in 1755, and after taking lessons in surgery and chemistry at Amsterdam, became a ship's surgeon in the Dutch service.

Would she have consulted a plastic surgeon or a magician?

This procedure can be ideal for many people, so if you have found you're becoming uneasy about the condition and/or appearance of your skin, consider visiting a cosmetic surgeon for a pre-op consultation today.

Usually, the surgeon will cut out some of the healthy tissue also, just to make sure all of the malignant cells are gone.

Laser treatments - A dermatologist or plastic surgeon can give you laser treatments to fade the spots away.

Since freckles are only on the uppermost surface of the skin, a laser surgeon will be able to use the laser to easily remove them without having to go into the deeper layers of the skin.

When deciding on a doctor to perform laser treatment on your freckles, it is important that the laser surgeon be board-certified.

The substance was discovered about the year 1835 by Hugh Rodie, a surgeon in Demerara, who used it as a febrifuge in.

From 1865 to 1884 - except for a brief interval - he was a surgeon at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

In 1780 he left the academy qualified to practise as a surgeon, and was at once appointed by the duke to an ill-paid post as doctor to a regiment garrisoned in Stuttgart.

Benedictus, De observatione in pestilentia, 4to (Venice, 1 493); Nicolaus Massa, De febre pestilentia, 4to (Venice, 1556, &c.); Fioravanti, Regimento della peste, 8vo, Venice, 1556; John Woodall, The Surgeon's Mate, folio (London, 1639); Van Helmont, Tumulus pestis, 8vo (Cologne, 1644, &c.); Muratori, Trattato del governo della peste, Modena, 1714; John Howard, An Account of Lazarettoes in Europe, &c., 4to (London, 1789); Patrick Russell, A Treatise of the Plague, 4to (London, 1791); Thomas Hancock, Researches into the Laws of Pestilence, 8vo (London, 1821); Fodere, Lecons sur les epide'mies, &c., 4 vols.

In 1891 he was promoted captain and full surgeon, and later, while stationed in Washington, D.C., was President McKinley's personal physician.

In 1791 Alexander Falconbridge (formerly a surgeon on board slave ships) collected the surviving fugitives and laid out a new settlement (Granville's Town); and the promoters of the enterprise - Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, Sir Richard Carr Glyn, &c. - hitherto known as the St George's Bay Company, obtained a charter of incorporation as the Sierra Leone Company, with Henry Thornton as chairman.

He was an apprentice of Joseph Henry Green, the distinguished surgeon at St Thomas's, well known for his friendship for Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose literary executor Green became.

His life was divided between two great pursuits - the career of a surgeon, and the mastery and solution of many of the great problems of sanitary science and reform.

As a surgeon, Simon's work came second to his interest in sanitary science, but he claimed priority over Cock in the operation of perineal puncture of the urethra in cases of retention from stricture.

In 1830 Young, a surgeon at Edinburgh, succeeded in obtaining 56 lb of opium from an acre of poppies, and sold it at 36s.

He made medicine his profession and in 1780 became surgeon to the duke of Orleans, but he also paid much attention to chemistry.

Hinde (London, 1897), is an account of the campaigns of 1892-1893 by an English surgeon who served as a captain in the state forces.

In 1620 one of the Company's factors dates from Patna; in 1624-1636 the Company established itself, by the favour of the emperor, on the ruins of the ancient Portuguese settlement of Pippli, in the north of Orissa; in 1640-1642 an English surgeon, Gabriel Boughton, obtained establishments at Balasore, also in Orissa, and at Hugli, some miles above Calcutta.

The surgeon should be encouraged to perform a radical debridement to eliminate as much of the source of infection as possible.

Mr Nazer, surgeon, said deceased had suffered from disorder of the mind for sometime.

Sometimes, the surgeon will not be able to create a fistula from the veins in your child's arm.

Aircrew members who become ill should consult the flight surgeon.