as in doctor
a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders
a real old-timer who remembers when you could expect a sawbones to make a house call
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Recent Examples of sawbones
Under the Knife 2 continues the story of Dr. Derek Stiles, the brilliant young sawbones from the original game.
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Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 1 July 2008
Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 1 July 2008
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sawbones
Noun
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This includes reducing the documentation burden for doctors and cutting different types of paperwork that nurses have to do.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Abnormal liver function tests, otherwise known as LFTs, can prompt your doctor to check your liver more carefully.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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After a while, the physician gestures and a man places a pot at Ellen’s feet.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Around the turn of the 19th century, a Viennese physician named Franz Joseph Gall proposed a new, and controversial, hypothesis about the human brain.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Sawbones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbones. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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