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(n)
(informal) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
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(informal) A doctor.
A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
(v)
(transitive, idiomatic) To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.
(transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.
(transitive) To falsify, or modify something, so that it appears to be better than it is.
A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
(uncountable) Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
The act of repairing something.
(computing) The act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
(British, medicine) Medicinae Doctor: Symbol indicating a higher research doctorate in medicine; Doctor of Medicine
(transitive) To polish so as to make look newer
A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
(US) A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.
(adv)
In a medical manner or context.
(informal) A medical examination.
(obsolete) The science of medicine.
A physician.
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.
An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.
(American spelling) A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of gynecologist. [(American spelling) A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.]
A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.
(healthcare) Initialism of primary care physician.
(uncountable, business) Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
The humanities.
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
(countable and uncountable) Clipping of evacuation. [The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.]
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
(US, military, nautical) A hospital corpsman.
Alternative form of Ph.D.. [Doctor of Philosophy, a terminal research degree, the highest of academic degrees conferred by a college or university.]
(roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.
A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
(Canada, US, medicine) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
Initialism of project management professional.
A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Philip.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
A city in Lake County, Ohio, United States.
A surname.
A person who practices medicine.
A family doctor.
(medicine) A physician who specialises in internal medicine.
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education.
Abbreviation of group. [A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.]
A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.
(American spelling) A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart.
(medicine) A doctor of urology.
A person who is skilled in, professes or practices dermatology.
A medical doctor specializing in the eye: deficiencies of vision requiring correction, and diseases. Compare optometrist.
(oncology) A doctor or scientist who specializes in oncology.
A surgeon specializing in brain surgery.
(Commonwealth) Standard spelling of pediatrician.
(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.
(medicine) A physician who specializes in childbirth.
A doctor specializing in the treatment of arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
A person who is skilled in or practices radiology.
A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.
(medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.
A person who is skilled at, or practices, endocrinology.
(Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of orthopedist. [(medicine) A surgeon who specializes in orthopedics.]
A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic.