MEDICAL STUDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical student mean? 

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

1. a student in medical school

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL STUDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A student in medical school

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

medical student; medico

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

educatee; pupil; student (a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution)

 Context examples 

The physician may have the added responsibility of supervising resident physicians or medical students, and involving consulting physicians in the prescribed plan of care.

(Attending Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

Looking behind me, I could see rows of faces of the familiar medical student type.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The medical student theory still appears to me to be the most feasible, but if you should have a few hours to spare I should be very happy to see you out here.

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

Well, it’s a game changer because I was doing a case the other day with a surgeon, and we had to wait an additional two hours because the current method takes that long, said Aydin Zahedivash, medical student and co-creator of the MasSpec Pen.

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

If the medical students turn out there will be no end of a rag.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some years ago, however, when she resided at Penge, she let apartments in her house to three young medical students, whom she was obliged to get rid of on account of their noisy and irregular habits.

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

A scuffle broke out in the back benches, and blows were freely exchanged among the medical students who crowded that part of the hall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She told us many details about her brother-in-law the steward, and then wandering off on the subject of her former lodgers, the medical students, she gave us a long account of their delinquencies, with their names and those of their hospitals.

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