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Sawbones  n.  A nickname for a surgeon.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sawbones" Quotes from Famous Books



... a dissipated, struggling young medical practitioner, who tries to establish a practice at Bristol, but without success. Sam Weller calls him "Mr. Sawbones."—C. Dickens, ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer

... and temperature, ditto," he heard above him. "Unconsciousness is merely natural reaction from shock, nerve strain, loss of blood. You can guess what sort of fight he must have made in those breakers. If you were a sawbones, Miss Gower, you wouldn't be uneasy. I'll stake my professional reputation on his injuries being superficial. Quite enough to knock a man out, I grant. But a physique of this sort can stand a tremendous amount of strain without ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... doctor," said Clay cheerfully, "I may tell you that your unprofessional opinion is rot. Now, if I'd a brother sawbones here to perform amputation, I might have a chance—say, ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne



Words linked to "Sawbones" :   De Bakey, Beaumont, reed, doc, Gorgas, James Parkinson, operating surgeon, Joseph Lister, lister, Alexis Carrel, md, Cowper, carrel, Michael Ellis De Bakey, surgeon



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