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chirurgeon
[ kahy-rur-juhn ]
noun
- a surgeon.
chirurgeon
/ kaɪˈrɜːdʒən /
noun
- an archaic word for surgeon
Derived Forms
- chiˈrurgery, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of chirurgeon1
Word History and Origins
Origin of chirurgeon1
Example Sentences
The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice, has 2 million readers and is a reliable source of all things surgical and grisly.
Stir, man, and take horse to Cardoyle for the chirurgeon.”
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris created The Chirurgeon's Apprentice, a blog about the history of surgery which allows her to merge her academic interests with a desire to reach a wider public.
In Evelyn’s Diary on March 28th, 1684, there is a record of a serious accident, “There was,” he writes, “so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon’s door for tickets.”
I would require Honesty in every Physician, that he be not over careless or covetous, Harpylike to make a prey of his patient, or, as an hungry Chirurgeon, often produce and wire-draw his cure, so long as there is any hope of pay.
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