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physician
1. Someone who is qualified and licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.
2. A doctor who practices general medicine with diagnoses and treatments of diseases and injuries using methods other than surgery.
3. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.
This entry is located in the following units: -ian + (page 4) -ician (page 3) physic-, physico-, physi-, physio-, phy- (page 5)
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iatro-, iater-, -iatria, -iatric, -iatrician, -iatrics, -iatrist, -iatry; -iatricians, -iatrists, -iatries +
(Greek: physician; heal, cure, treat; medical healing)
medico-, medic-, medi-, med-
(Latin: heal, cure, remedy; physician, doctor; practice of medicine, give medicine to)
galvano-, galvan- +
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
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allopathic physician
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bariatric physician
A physician practicing bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with weight loss.
This entry is located in the following unit: iatro-, iater-, -iatria, -iatric, -iatrician, -iatrics, -iatrist, -iatry; -iatricians, -iatrists, -iatries + (page 1)
eclectic physician
Someone of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as a botanic physician.
This entry is located in the following unit: legi-, -leg-, -ligi-, -lig-, -lect-, -lectic, -lection (page 2)
family doctor, family physician, family practitioner (s) (noun); family doctors, family physicians, family practitioners (pl)
A physician whose medical training is to provide comprehensive medical care for parents and their offspring: The family doctor is a general physician who has been trained to treat illnesses of all of the members of a family; including the very young and the adults.
This entry is located in the following unit: famil- (page 1)
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leech or physician
A former name for a medical doctor which came from an Old English word originally meaning "to pull".
This entry is located in the following unit: Medicine, Leeching for Health + (page 1)
primary care physician (s), primary care physicians (pl) (nouns)
Those medical doctors who plan and provide comprehensive primary health care to all members of families, regardless of ages or sexes, on a continuing basis: "Primary care physicians are doctors who are in charge of managing family member’s health care needs."
This entry is located in the following unit: Health Care Providers, Health-Care Providers, Healthcare Providers (page 3)