Lewis & Short

Măchāon, ŏnis, m., = Μαχάων,

  1. I. son of Æsculapius, a famous surgeon of the Greeks before Troy, Cels. praef.; Prop. 2, 1, 61; Verg. A. 2, 263; Ov. P. 3, 4, 7 al.
  2. II. Transf., in plur., surgeons, physicians: quid tibi cum medicis? dimitte Machaonas omnes, Mart. 2, 16, 5.
    Hence,
    1. A. Ma-chāŏnĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Machaon: ars, i. e. the art of surgery, Sid. Ep. 2, 12.
    2. B. Măchāŏnĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Machaon, Machaonian, surgical: Machaoniā ope sanus, Ov. R. Am. 546: sucus, Stat. S. 1, 4, 114.