Unscramble

s 1 u 1 r 1 g 2 e 1 o 1 n 1

7 letters · 8 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a physician who specializes in surgery

originFrom Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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