| NOUN | person | medical man, medical practitioner | someone who practices medicine |
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| Meaning | someone who practices medicine. | |
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| Synonym | medical practitioner | |
| Instances | Hippocrates | medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine |
| Narrower | dentist, tooth doctor, dental practitioner | A person qualified to practice dentistry |
| doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico | A licensed medical practitioner | |
| inoculator, vaccinator | A medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | |
| medical officer, medic | A medical practitioner in the armed forces | |
| Broader | health professional, primary care provider, PCP, health care provider, caregiver | A person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability |
| Spanish | profesional de la medicina | |
| Catalan | professional de la medicina | |
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