surgeon
English Thesaurus
1. a physician who specializes in surgery (noun.person)
hyponym | : | amputator, |
definition | : | a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | brain surgeon, neurosurgeon, |
definition | : | someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beaumont, william beaumont, |
definition | : | United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alexis carrel, carrel, |
definition | : | French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cowper, william cowper, |
definition | : | English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | de bakey, michael ellis de bakey, |
definition | : | United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gorgas, william crawford gorgas, |
definition | : | United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | reed, walter reed, |
definition | : | United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) (noun.person) |
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