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SAWBONES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A physician who specializes in surgery

Synonyms:

operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sawbones" is a kind of...):

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sawbones"):

amputator (a surgeon who removes part or all of a limb)

cosmetic surgeon; plastic surgeon (a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face))

brain surgeon; neurosurgeon (someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain))

Instance hyponyms:

Beaumont; William Beaumont (United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853))

Alexis Carrel; Carrel (French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944))

Cowper; William Cowper (English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709))

De Bakey; Michael Ellis De Bakey (United States heart surgeon who in 1966 implanted the first artificial heart in a human patient (born in 1908))

Gorgas; William Crawford Gorgas (United States Army surgeon who suppressed yellow fever in Havana and in the Panama Canal Zone (1854-1920))

Baron Lister; Joseph Lister; Lister (English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912))

James Parkinson; Parkinson (English surgeon (1755-1824))

Reed; Walter Reed (United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902))

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