Physician

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.
  • n. A person who practices general medicine as distinct from surgery.
  • n. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
  • n. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
  • n. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who practises the art of healing disease and of preserving health; a prescriber of remedies for sickness and disease; specifically, a person licensed by some competent authority, such as a medical college, to treat diseases and pre scribe remedies for them; a doctor; a medical man.
  • n. A student of physics; a naturalist; a physicist; specifically, in medieval universities, a student of the Aristotelian physics.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a licensed medical practitioner
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    doctor   
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