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doctors
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?d?kt?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?d?kt?z/
- Hyphenation: doc?tors
Noun
doctors
- plural of doctor
Verb
doctors
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of doctor
Catalan
Noun
doctors
- plural of doctor
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physician
English
Alternative forms
- phisician (obsolete)
- phisitian (obsolete)
- physitian (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English fisicien, from Old French fisicïen (“physician”) (modern French physicien (“physicist”)), from fisique (“art of healing”), from Latin physica (“natural science”), from Ancient Greek ?????? ???????? (phusik? epist?m?, “knowledge of nature”), from ??????? (phusikós, “pertaining to nature”). Displaced native Middle English læche, leche, archaic Modern English leech "physician" (from Old English l??e (“physician, medical doctor”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??z???n/
- Hyphenation: phy?si?cian
Noun
physician (plural physicians)
- 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.
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
- A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice […].
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, a physician holds a postgraduate degree such as Master of General Medicine or fellowship certificate such as MRCP or FRCP from the Royal College of Physicians in UK, or the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Australia and New Zealand. Contrarily, in the United States, the term is frequently regulated by State laws, and in all States includes those with the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree (not to be confused with osteopaths), the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree, and in some States those with the D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) degree (who are neither medical doctors nor part of allied health).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:physician
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