Surgeon

sur′jun, n. one who treats injuries or diseases by manual operations.— ns. Sur′geoncy , Sur′geonship , the office or employment of a surgeon in the army or navy; Sur′gery , act and art of treating lesions or malformations of the human body by manual operations, mediate and immediate: a place for surgical operations.— adj. Sur′gical , pertaining to surgeons, or to surgery: done by surgery.— adv. Sur′gically . [A doublet of chirurgeon (q.v.).]