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surgicalists

surgicalists is the plural of surgicalist.

Meaning of surgicalist

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

Questions about surgicalists

What is surgicalists the plural of?
Surgicalists is the plural of surgicalist.

Words near surgicalists in the dictionary

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

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