Definition of "house-surgeon" [house-surgeon]

• The resident surgeon in a hospital. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician -- little more than a senior student."
• "The house-surgeon at the hospital has just said that M. de Chandour will have a wry neck for the rest of his days."
• "My house-surgeon, Mr. Hector Cameron, applied carbolic acid to the whole raw surface, and completed the dressing as if for compound fracture."