professor of surgery

collocation in English

meaningsofprofessorandsurgery

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professor
noun[C]
uk
/prəˈfes.ər/us
/prəˈfes.ɚ/
a teacher of the highest rank in a department of a British university, or a teacher of high rank in an American university ...
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surgery
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.dʒər.i/us
/ˈsɝː.dʒər.i/
the treatment of injuries or diseases in people or animals by cutting open the body and removing or repairing the ...
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(Definition ofprofessorandsurgeryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is simply not enough to have a retired dean of medicine orprofessorofsurgery.
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We spotted him as the obvious man to make into ourprofessorofsurgery.
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Let us take aprofessorofsurgerydoing his rounds, accompanied by a group of his students.
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You have to get the nomination of one of these thirteen, and, in addition, that of aprofessorofsurgeryor others in some branch of medical training.
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He is aprofessorofsurgery.
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He has also held various other appointments in the medical service, and was professor of medical jurisprudence andprofessorofsurgeryfor 21 years before he became principal.
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He wasprofessorofsurgerythere until 1881.
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The senior surgeon became, ipsottfacto,professorofsurgery.
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About the same time the university confided to him the chair of botany, and appointed him extraordinaryprofessorofsurgeryand anatomy.
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They do not even know if they can appoint their own professors of surgery.
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