different between physician vs armamentarium

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)

1. 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; […].
2. 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 […].

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

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin arm?mentum (“arsenal”), from arm?menta (“tools”).

Noun

armamentarium (plural armamentariums or armamentaria)

1. All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
   • 2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, Dove Press, no. 3, p. 29:

     Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From arm?menta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) +? -?rium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.ma?.men?ta?.ri.um/, [ärmä?m?n??t?ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.ma.men?ta.ri.um/, [?rm?m?n??t????ium]

Noun

arm?ment?rium n (genitive arm?ment?ri? or arm?ment?r?); second declension

1. arsenal

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• armamentarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• armamentarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armamentarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• armamentarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• armamentarium in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• armamentarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• armamentarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin