Examples of surgeon in a Sentence
Jon Hamilton, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
Smile Hair Clinic, with its team of highly qualified surgeons who have completed specialized training, is emerging as a prominent platform in Turkey’s hair transplant industry.
—Chiara Accardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2024
These components are so delicate, and the insertion procedure so precise, that the hands of human surgeons are unfit for the task.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
The surgery consisted of her surgeon reopening her original scar to clean it in order to prevent any infections and to replace the bone that was initially cut out of her skull.
—Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
During a four-hour procedure earlier this month, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital connected the pig kidney's blood vessels and ureter -- the duct that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder -- with those of 62-year-old Richard Slayman, a man living with end-stage kidney disease.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
That tip pays off now, as Jake discovered Tozawa received a life-saving surgery for liver disease, giving the surgeon a $500,000 gold watch for his services.
—Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
The surgeon’s microscopic tools had traveled into the brain via Miranda’s nose.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
Tatsuo Kawai, one of the surgeons involved, said the operating room erupted in applause.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English surgien, from Anglo-French, alteration of cirurgien, from cirurgerie surgery
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Surgeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surgeon. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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