MEDICAL PRACTITIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical practitioner mean? 

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

1. someone who practices medicine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL PRACTITIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who practices medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

medical man; medical practitioner

Hypernyms ("medical practitioner" 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 practitioner"):

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 

In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson’s shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one of the largest practices upon the south side of the Thames.

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

A medical practitioner whose primary concern is the health status of the population within a defined geographic area, who is usually responsible for assessment and evaluation of the community's health needs and for the organisation of health services to meet those needs.

(Community Physician, NCI Thesaurus)