MD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MD mean? 

• MD (noun)
  The noun MD has 4 senses:

1. a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol)

2. a licensed medical practitioner

3. a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

4. a doctor's degree in medicine

  Familiarity information: MD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 101; Md; mendelevium; Mv

Hypernyms ("Md" is a kind of...):

chemical element; element (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A licensed medical practitioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician

Context example:

I felt so bad I went to see my doctor

Hypernyms ("MD" is a kind of...):

medical man; medical practitioner (someone who practices medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "MD"):

operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon (a physician who specializes in surgery)

vet; veterinarian; veterinary; veterinary surgeon (a doctor who practices veterinary medicine)

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

quack (an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice)

primary care physician (the physician who provides primary care)

houseman; intern; interne; medical intern (an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience ('houseman' is a British term))

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)

general practitioner; GP (a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses)

gastroenterologist (a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract)

extern; medical extern (a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there)

angiologist (a physician who specializes in angiology)

hakeem; hakim (a Muslim physician)

allergist (a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies)

abortionist (a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies)

Instance hyponyms:

Harry F. Klinefelter; Harry Fitch Kleinfelter; Klinefelter (United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912))

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier; 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))

Franz Anton Mesmer; Friedrich Anton Mesmer; 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; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541))

Peter Mark Roget; 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))

Benjamin Rush; Rush (physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813))

Albert Schweitzer; Schweitzer (French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965))

Anna Howard Shaw; 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))

English Hippocrates; Sydenham; Thomas Sydenham (English physician (1624-1689))

E. A. von Willebrand; Erik Adolf von Willebrand; Erik von Willebrand; von Willebrand; Willebrand (Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949))

Down; John L. H. Down (English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896))

Edward Jenner; Jenner (English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823))

Aletta Jacobs; Jacobs (Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929))

George Huntington; Huntington (United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea)

Hodgkin; Thomas Hodgkin (English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866))

Harvey; William Harvey (English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657))

Gilbert; William Gilbert (English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))

Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot; Fallot (French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911))

Christiaan Eijkman; Eijkman (Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930))

Burrill Bernard Crohn; Crohn (United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines; he was the first to describe regional ileitis which is now known as Crohn's disease (1884-1983))

Bruce; David Bruce; Sir David Bruce (Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931))

Bartholin; Caspar Bartholin (Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629))

Barany; Robert Barany (Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936))

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina; Avicenna; ibn-Sina (Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037))

Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd; Averroes; ibn-Roshd (Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198))

Holonyms ("MD" is a member of...):

doctor-patient relation (the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "MD"):

Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)

Susquehanna; Susquehanna River (a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay)

Potomac; Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay)

Hagerstown (a town in northern Maryland)

Frederick (a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore)

Fort George G. Meade; Fort George Gordon Meade; Fort Meade (a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency)

Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)

Annapolis; capital of Maryland (state capital of Maryland; site of the United States Naval Academy)

Aberdeen (a town in northeastern Maryland)

Holonyms ("MD" is a part of...):

Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A doctor's degree in medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Doctor of Medicine; MD

Hypernyms ("MD" is a kind of...):

doctor's degree; doctorate (one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university)

 Context examples 

Analysis of Spitzer's infrared data shows 2011 MD is roughly 20 feet (6 meters) in size and has a remarkably low density about the same as water, which supports the analysis of observations taken in 2011.

(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)

Some forms of MD appear in infancy or childhood.

(Muscular Dystrophy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

John C. Morris, MD, Chair, and the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center.

(Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Created and published by the ADC Clinical Task Force (John C. Morris, MD, Chair) and the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (Walter A. Kukull, PhD, Director).

(Modified Hachinski Ischemic Scale-NACC Version Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A team of scientists lead by Dr. Raghu Kalluri of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center searched for biomarkers on tiny, fluid-filled sacs called exosomes.

(Method for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer, NIH)

A government-owned, contractor operated cancer research facility located in Frederick, MD.

(Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, NCI Thesaurus)

There are also plans to test the technology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

This technique has great potential to become a screening tool that helps decide who should undergo more expensive and invasive testing for Alzheimer's disease prior to the appearance of clinical symptoms, said the study's first author, Bliss E. O'Bryhim, MD, PhD, a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences.

(Predicting Alzheimer's Disease May Be Possible Using Eye Exam, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This treatment, performed in an outpatient setting by an interventional radiologist, can safely relieve a child's migraine quickly, said Robin Kaye, MD, section chief of interventional radiology in the department of medical imaging at Phoenix Children's Hospital and a co-author of the study.

(Innovative Treatment Offers Relief to Children with Frequent Migraine Headaches, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)