MEDICAL MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical man mean? 

• MEDICAL MAN (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL MAN has 1 sense:

1. someone who practices medicine

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL MAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who practices medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

medical man; medical practitioner

Hypernyms ("medical man" 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)

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

dental practitioner; dentist; tooth doctor (a person qualified to practice dentistry)

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

inoculator; vaccinator (a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases)

medic; medical officer (a medical practitioner in the armed forces)

Instance hyponyms:

Hippocrates (medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC))

 Context examples 

It may surprise you to know that the man upon earth who is best versed in this disease is not a medical man, but a planter.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went out again, therefore, through the window, and having obtained the help of a policeman and of a medical man, he returned.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, sir, replied Mr. Chillip, a medical man, being so much in families, ought to have neither eyes nor ears for anything but his profession.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As a medical man, you are aware, Watson, that there is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, no; my friend Watson is a medical man, you know, and he’ll look after you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My publishers gave me a most discouraging account of its sale. You are yourself, I presume, a medical man?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)