A surgeon is a doctor who is specially trained to perform operations on the body. They use tools and careful techniques to fix injuries, remove diseases, or change body parts.
From Old French 'surgien', shortened from 'cirurgien', from Late Latin 'chirurgus', from Greek 'kheirourgos' meaning 'working with the hands'. It combines 'kheir' (hand) and 'ergon' (work).
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