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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.
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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 (s) (noun), allopathic physicians (pl)
A doctor of conventional medical treatment: Dr. Crawford was an allopathic physician who treated symptoms of illnesses by usingd techniques and substances to put an end to those symptoms.
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bariatric physician
A physician practicing bariatrics, the field of medicine concerned with weight loss.
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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.
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leech, physician (s) (noun); leeches; physicians (pl)
A former name for a medical doctor: Sam read in an old book that the word leech used to refer to a ,medical practitioner or physician that came from an Old English word originally meaning "to pull".
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primary care physician (s) (noun), primary care physicians (pl)
A medical doctor who plans and provides 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)