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MEDICAL ASSISTANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does medical assistant mean?
• MEDICAL ASSISTANT (noun)
The noun MEDICAL ASSISTANT has 1 sense:
1. a person trained to assist medical professionals
Familiarity information: MEDICAL ASSISTANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person trained to assist medical professionals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("medical assistant" is a kind of...):
caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)
Context examples
A medical assistant who has successfully completed an examination that earns them the credentials to become a certified medical assistant.
(Certified Medical Assistant, NCI Thesaurus)
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