surgical technologist

English

Noun

surgical technologist (plural surgical technologists)

1. An member of an the operating room team who serves as an assistant to the surgeon.

   Synonym: surg tech (clipped compound)

   Hypernyms: tech, technologist, technician

Usage notes

• A scrub nurse is a surgical technologist who is also a nurse, but not all surgical technologists are nurses.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: instrumentador m, instrumentadora f

See also

• allied health
• paraoperative
• paraprofessional