Physician

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  • noun. A person trained and licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.
  • noun. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A student of physics; a naturalist; a physicist; specifically, in medieval universities, a student of the Aristotelian physics.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
  • noun. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a licensed medical practitioner
    • Word Usage
    "Ryan Mascio, a second-year medical resident, said he came to celebrate with Ashley because being a physician is about more than diagnosing and dosing."
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    medical man  medical practitioner  
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    architect  clergyman  clerk  doctor  judge  
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    Doctor of Medicine  GP  MD  Md  allopath  
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