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Noun: Parkinson  paa(r)-kin-sun
  1. English surgeon (1755-1824)
    - James Parkinson
     
  2. British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)
    - C. Northcote Parkinson, Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Type of: historian, historiographer, operating surgeon, sawbones [informal], surgeon

Encyclopedia: Parkinson, Leonard