Surgeon General (redirected from Surgeon General (disambiguation))

Sur·geon General  (sûrjn)

n. pl. Surgeons General Abbr. SG

1. The chief general officer in the medical departments of the U.S. Army, Navy, or Air Force.

2. The chief medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service or in a state public health service.

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surgeon general

n pl surgeons general

1. (Military) (Medicine) (in the British, US, and certain other armies and navies) the senior officer of the medical service

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the head of the public health service in the US

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Surgeon General - the head of the United States Public Health Service executive, executive director - a person responsible for the administration of a business
	2.	Surgeon General - the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy medical officer, medic - a medical practitioner in the armed forces

Translations

surgeon general

n (Mil) → Sanitätsinspekteur(in) m(f); (US) → ˜ Gesundheitsminister(in) m(f)

Surgeon General n (Am) the Surgeon General → il ministro della Sanità