surgeon general

1. 1.

   the head of the United States Public Health Service

   Broaderexecutive
2. 2.

   the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy

   Broadermedical officer

Questions about surgeon general

What does surgeon general mean?

surgeon general means "the head of the United States Public Health Service". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is surgeon general a common word?

surgeon general 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.