English > Dr.: 2 senses > noun 2, person | Meaning | A licensed medical practitioner. |
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| Synonyms | doctor, doc, physician, MD, 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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