Physician - English meaning

abbreviation

Doctor.

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The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing …

noun

A person who is qualified to treat people who are ill.

Usage examples:

Doctor thornhill

verb

Change the content or appearance of (a document or picture) in order to deceive; falsify.

Usage examples:

The reports could have been doctored

noun

A person with a medical degree whose job is to treat people who are ill or injured

Usage examples:

This health plan lets you choose your own doctor., he claimed the photo had been doctored.

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

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The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

Usage examples:

He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

abbreviation

Doctor of medicine.

Usage examples:

He attained the degree of md

abbreviation

Maryland.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 101, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. it does not occur naturally and was first made in 1955 by bombarding einsteinium with helium ions.

noun

A medical practitioner or student.

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Equally, though no-one would begrudge mature students retraining as medics, it is fanciful to suppo…

noun

Variant spelling of medick.

noun

A yellow-flowered eurasian and african plant of the pea family related to alfalfa, some kinds of which are grown for fodder or green manure.

noun

A medical practitioner or student.

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And like many others who had to begin life afresh, the boy initially started selling medical books …

combining form

Relating to the field of medicine.

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Medico-social

noun

A doctor

noun

The characteristic harsh sound made by a duck.

Usage examples:

I heard a quack and saw some ducks huddled together

verb

(of a duck) make a quack.

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Ducks quacked from the lake

noun

A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.

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A quack doctor

noun

A doctor or surgeon.

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Osler - a sawbones so famous that somebody wrote a 1,400-page biography of the guy - was the first …

noun

An informal way of referring to a doctor, especially a surgeon (= a doctor specially trained to perform medical operations)

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The gloomiest prognosis comes from a sawbones at leeds general infirmary, who suspects that the sta…

noun

A medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery.

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Early group portraits show noble surgeons parading their medical knowledge with elitist pomp.

noun

A doctor who performs medical operations

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A brain/heart surgeon