English > doctor: 7 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A licensed medical practitioner. |
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| Example | "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" |
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| Synonyms | doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico |
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| Instances | Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd | Arabian philosopher born in Spain |
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| Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina | Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher |
| Barany, Robert Barany | Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936) |
| Bartholin, Caspar Bartholin | Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629) |
| Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Bruce | Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931) |
| Crohn, Burrill Bernard Crohn | United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines |
| Down, John L. H. Down | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) |
| Eijkman, Christiaan Eijkman | Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930) |
| Fallot, Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot | French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911) |
| Gilbert, William Gilbert | English court physician noted for his studies / studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) |
| Harvey, William Harvey | English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood |
| Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin | English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) |
| Huntington, George Huntington | United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea |
| Jacobs, Aletta Jacobs | Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929) |
| Jenner, Edward Jenner | English physician who pioneered vaccination |
| Klinefelter, Harry F. Klinefelter, Harry Fitch Kleinfelter | United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912) |
| Lozier, Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier | United States physician who in 1863 founded a medical school for women (1813-1888) |
| Manson, Sir Patrick Manson | Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922) |
| Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer, Friedrich Anton Mesmer | Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815) |
| Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim | Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience |
| Roget, Peter Mark Roget | English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869) |
| Ross, Sir Ronald Ross | British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) |
| Rush, Benjamin Rush | physician and American Revolutionary leader |
| Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer | French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary / missionary in Gabon (1875-1965) |
| Shaw, Anna Howard Shaw | United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919) |
| Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson | Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870) |
| Sydenham, Thomas Sydenham, English Hippocrates | English physician (1624-1689) |
| Willebrand, von Willebrand, E. A. von Willebrand, Erik von Willebrand, Erik Adolf von Willebrand | Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949) |
| Member of | doctor-patient relation | The responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient |
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| Narrower | abortionist | A person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies |
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| allergist | A physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies |
| angiologist | A physician who specializes in angiology |
| extern, medical extern | A nonresident doctor or medical student |
| gastroenterologist | A physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract |
| general practitioner, GP | A physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses |
| hakim, hakeem | A Muslim physician |
| house physician, resident, resident physician | A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital |
| intern, interne, houseman, medical intern | An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised / supervised practical experience ('houseman' is a British term) |
| primary care physician | The physician who provides primary care |
| quack | An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice |
| specialist, medical specialist | practices one branch of medicine |
| surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones | A physician who specializes in surgery / surgery |
| veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, vet | A doctor who practices veterinary medicine |
| Broader | medical practitioner, medical man | someone who practices medicine |
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| Spanish | DM, doc, doctora, doctor, Dr., facultativo, médica, medico, médico |
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| Catalan | doc, doctor, facultatiu, metge, metgessa |
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| Adjectives | doctorial | of or relating to a doctor or doctorate |
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| Verbs | doctor | give medical treatment to |
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English > Doctor: 7 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching. |
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| Synonym | Doctor of the Church |
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| Category | Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church | The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
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| Instances | Ambrose, Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose | (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan |
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| Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas, St. Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas | (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology |
| Athanasius, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great | (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism |
| Augustine, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Augustine of Hippo | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church |
| Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great, St. Basil the Great | (Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies / heresies of the 4th century |
| Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the Venerable Bede | (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) |
| Gregory, Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, St. Gregory I, Gregory the Great | (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership |
| Gregory, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nazianzen | (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies / heresies |
| Irenaeus, Saint Irenaeus, St. Irenaeus | Greek theologian who was bishop of Lyons and an antiheretical writer |
| Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate) |
| John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom | (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople |
| Broader | theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser | someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology |
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| Spanish | doctor de la iglesia, doctor |
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| Catalan | doctor de l'església, Doctor de l'Església, doctor |
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English > doctor: 7 senses > verb 3, change| Meaning | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn / torn or broken. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | repair, mend, fix, bushel, furbish up, restore, touch on |
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| Entailed by | overhaul, modernize, modernise | make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to |
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| Narrower | cobble | repair or mend |
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| darn | repair by sewing |
| fill | plug with a substance |
| heel, reheel | put a new heel on |
| patch, patch up | mend by putting a patch on |
| piece, patch | repair by adding pieces |
| point, repoint | repair the joints of bricks |
| sole, resole | put a new sole on |
| tinker, fiddle | try to fix or mend |
| trouble-shoot, troubleshoot | solve problems |
| vamp, revamp | Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp |
| Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
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| Opposite | break, bust | ruin completely |
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| Spanish | arreglar, atender, componer, recomponer, reparar, restaurar, restituir |
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| Catalan | adobar, apariar, arreglar, atendre, reparar, restituir |
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