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Surgeon General

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Noun

1. surgeon general

the head of the United States Public Health Service

2. surgeon general

the senior medical officer in an Army or Navy

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Surgeon General

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nounWord forms: plural surgeons general
1. 
(in the British, US, and certain other armies and navies) the senior officer of the medical service
2. 
the head of the public health service in the US

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Surgeon General

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Word forms: plural Surgeons General or Surgeon Generals
1. 
the chief general officer or admiral in charge of the medical department of the U.S. Army, Air Force, or Navy
2. 
the chief medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service or in some state health services

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Surgeon General

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n. pl. Surgeons General Abbr. SG
1. The chief medical officer in the US Public Health Service or in a state public health service.
2. The chief general officer in the medical departments of the US Army, Navy, or Air Force.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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