Surgeon vs Practitioner - What's the difference?
surgeon | practitioner |
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
A surgeonfish.
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
As nouns the difference between surgeon and practitioner
is that surgeon is one who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals while practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.surgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.
Usage notes
* In the UK, a surgeon holds a fellowship or a postgraduate degree in order to be known as a surgeon. For instance: FRCS or * In the United States, a surgeon belongs to a subcategory of doctors (physicians) whose practice is largely or exclusively focused on surgery. They generally hold a credential from a medical body regulating the specialty in which they practice.Synonyms
* sawbones (slang)Derived terms
* neurosurgeon * psychosurgeon * brain surgeon * surgeonfishpractitioner
English
(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.