flight surgeon

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   a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine

   Broadermedical officer

Questions about flight surgeon

What does flight surgeon mean?

flight surgeon means "a medical officer specializing in aviation medicine".

Is flight surgeon a common word?

flight surgeon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.