noun.
A name, among Spanish-speaking people of America, for Teuthis cæruleus and other species of the same genus, fishes found in warm seas and called surgeon- and doctor-fish, in English.
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noun.
A physician or medicaldoctor; sometimes also a medical student.
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noun.
a licensed medical practitioner
noun.
a student in medical school
Word Usage
"The estrangement from prevailing discourses about the sexed mind created by Baillie's comedies therefore contributes to anxieties about what constituted masculinity and femininity, and how the culture might define male and female sexuality in medico-scientific terms."