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(n)
Alternative spelling of wet nurse. [A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.]
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A child's nurse.
A woman or girl employed to care for children.
(obsolete) Entertainment; pleasure.
A grasp or grip.
(uncountable) The ability to suck; suction.
An act of suckling
(v)
(archaic) To suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).
An instance of feeding milk to a baby from the breasts; a breastfeeding.
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid.
(Commonwealth spelling) Standard spelling of harbor.
(countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
A woman paid to educate children in their own home.
(polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
Courtesy title for an unmarried woman in France or a French-speaking country.
(Canada, US, Philippines) A carer; a person who looks after another person.
A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.
Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.
A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
(countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
(informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
(with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
Alternative spelling of breastfeed. [(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.]
(US, military, nautical) A hospital corpsman.
(uncountable) The act or process of feeding a baby or young child milk from a lactating breast.
A small mouthful of drink
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
The practice and science of being a midwife.
(US) A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.
A physician.
A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Muriel.
(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
(N)
Midwives: A Novel is a novel by Chris Bohjalian, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in October 1998.
(adj)
producing or secreting milk
An assistant.
(chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.
A professional nurse who is a licensed graduate of a university or college of nursing who has successfully passed an examination such as NCLEX-RN.
A person who is certified to provide custodial care such as help in walking, bathing, and feeding.
(obstetrics) A person, usually a woman, who is trained to assist women in childbirth, but who is not a physician.
(American spelling, Canadian spelling, medicine) One who gives an anesthetic.
A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
(American spelling, Canadian spelling) A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia.
Alternative form of nursie. [(childish, mainly as a term of address) A nurse.]
(American spelling) A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
A practitioner of phlebotomy.
(childish, mainly as a term of address) A nurse.
An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.
A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000, and concluded on 14 November 2024.
A person who studies or applies neonatology.
(US, especially medicine) Synonym of trainee: a new employee undergoing a probation period of training and evaluation ("orientation").
Someone who works with radiography. This term seems to be more common in British English.
(archaic) A female doctor.
(obsolete) The science of medicine.
A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.
(American spelling) A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
(medicine) A physician who specializes in childbirth.
(Commonwealth) Standard spelling of pediatrician.
A person who teaches, especially one employed in a school; preceptor.
(law enforcement) A female police officer.
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
A person who operates a mammograph or interprets mammograms
Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.
Nonstandard spelling of dietitian. [A person who studies or practices dietetics.]
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
A person who is skilled in or practices radiology.
An adult female human.
An expert in the field of psychology.
A surname.
A person who studies or practices dietetics.
(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
An expert or specialist in nutrition.
A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially an enlisted member.
A researcher or technologist who works in a laboratory: either a research laboratory or a clinical laboratory.