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surgicalist

surgicalist noun: a surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.

Noun

surgicalist (plural surgicalists)

  1. (US) A surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.
    • The two are being hired as surgicalists, a new term coined from the more common title surgical hospitalist. Both mean the same thing: doctors hired by hospitals to treat patients full time, replacing local physicians who work at the hospital on an “on-call” basis.2005 October 27, Alan Wechsler, “These doctors will work 24/7”, in The Times Union
    • We now have two new specialists that are growing in numbers, the hospitalist and the surgicalist. Knowing everything about hospital care but having no experience with office and outpatient care presents a new set of problems for the patient.2011, Dr. Lowell Fisher, Marcus Welby is Dead: Now Who is Your Advocate?, →ISBN, page 62

Forms of surgicalist

pluralsurgicalists

Origin of surgicalist

Blend of surgical + hospitalist.

Questions about surgicalist

What does surgicalist mean?
Surgicalist means a surgeon who works exclusively in a hospital setting.
What part of speech is surgicalist?
Surgicalist is a noun.
What is the plural of surgicalist?
The plural of surgicalist is surgicalists.

Words near surgicalist in the dictionary

  1. surgical tape
  2. surgical tapes
  3. surgical technologist
  4. surgical technologists
  5. surgical-gowned
  6. surgicalist
  7. surgicalists
  8. surgically
  9. surgically gowned
  10. surgically induced childhood
  11. surgicenter

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