Updated September 02, 2014.

Definition:

A physician who treats illness or injury by opening the body to perform therapy or repairs. In the past, a surgeon was a physician who used a scalpel to open the body to perform treatment. Today, surgeons may use minimally invasive techniques that do not open the body, or minimally invasive techniques where only the instruments are inserted into the body.

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Also Known As: surgical doctor, physician, surgery physician,

Alternate Spellings: surgeons

Common Misspellings: surgin, surjin, surjun, surgen, surgon, surggeon, sergon, sergun, serjun, sergin, surgeo,

Examples:

The patient was diagnosed with appendicitis, so a surgeon was consulted to perform the surgical procedure.