operating surgeon

Questions about operating surgeon

What does operating surgeon mean?

operating surgeon means "a physician who specializes in surgery".

What is another word for operating surgeon?

Close synonyms include surgeon, sawbones. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is operating surgeon a common word?

operating 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.