MEDICAL PROFESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical profession mean? 

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

1. the body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL PROFESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of individuals who are qualified to practice medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

medical community; medical profession

Hypernyms ("medical profession" is a kind of...):

health profession (the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients)

 Context examples 

Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care.

(Medical Economics, NCI Thesaurus)

A group formed for the purpose of developing a system of clinical staging for cancer that is acceptable to the American medical profession and is compatible with other accepted classifications.

(American Joint Committee on Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.

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