surgeon

Etymology
From, borrowed from , (Old French  et al.), from , from , from , borrowed from , from  +. .

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) 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

 * (slang)
 * (archaic)

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, جَرَّاحَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: جراح
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ciruxanu, ceruxanu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: хирург
 * Belarusian: хіру́рг
 * Bulgarian: хиру́рг, хиру́ржка
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏰᏠᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, chirurgyně, chiruržka
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ĥirurgo, kirurgo, ĥirurgiisto, kirurgiisto
 * Estonian: kirurg
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, cirurxiá
 * Georgian: ქირურგი
 * German:, , , Wundärztin
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χειρουργός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: शल्यचिकित्सक, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: máinlia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  執刀医
 * Kalmyk: месллч
 * Kazakh: оташы, хирург
 * Khmer: ពេទ្យវះកាត់
 * Korean: 외과의사(外科醫師), 외과의(外科醫), 집도의(執刀醫)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, kîrûrg, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: chīrurgus
 * Latvian: ķirurgs, ķirurģe
 * Lithuanian: chirurgas
 * Macedonian: хирург
 * Malay: pakar bedah, ahli bedah
 * Maori: tākuta poka
 * Marathi: सर्जन
 * Norman: seurgien
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kirurg
 * Occitan:
 * Old Portuguese: celorgião
 * Ossetian: хирург
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, chirurżka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lighiche
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хѝрург, хиру̀ргиња, кѝрург, киру̀ргиња
 * Roman:, hirùrginja , ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, kirurginja
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: mpasuaji
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: siruhano, maninistis
 * Tajik: ҷарроҳ
 * Tatar: хирург
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གཤག་གཅོད་སྨན་པ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hirurg
 * Ukrainian: хіру́рг
 * Urdu: جراح
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: bác sĩ phẫu thuật
 * Walloon:, cérudjinne
 * Welsh:
 * Yakut: хирург
 * Yiddish: כירורג

Etymology
,, from , (1200s), from a conjugated form of  (see ) + , from. The modern spelling dates from 1541.

Noun

 * 1)  shoot new growth from the trunk of a tree
 * 2)  offshoot, rebirth something that is reborn or grows out of something else again
 * 3)  offspring, progeny descendant of someone