Surgeoncy

Quick meaning: Surgeoncy is a noun meaning (now chiefly India) The office or employment of a surgeon, either in the naval or military service, or in a hospital as a resident or house officer.

Meaning

(now chiefly India) The office or employment of a surgeon, either in the naval or military service, or in a hospital as a resident or house officer.

Example Sentences

Before she is able to have her own practice, she has to complete her house surgeoncy.

1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. J—W—E., in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 4-5, […] his abilities, address, good nature, and good sense, have got him a surgeoncy in the batalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing.

Word Forms

• surgeoncies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surveyorship, hospitalman, corpsman, surrogateship, servitude, sergeantcy.

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