specialist vs surgeon

specialist

noun
  • A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery. 

  • A stenotopic species. 

  • Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research. 

  • Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal. 

  • An organism that is specialized for a particular environment. 

adj
  • Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic. 

surgeon

noun
  • One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals. 

  • A surgeonfish. 

How often have the words specialist and surgeon occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )