PHYSICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physician mean? 

• PHYSICIAN (noun)
  The noun PHYSICIAN has 1 sense:

1. a licensed medical practitioner

  Familiarity information: PHYSICIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A licensed medical practitioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician

Context example:

I felt so bad I went to see my doctor

Hypernyms ("physician" is a kind of...):

medical man; medical practitioner (someone who practices medicine)

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

quack (an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice)

abortionist (a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies)

vet; veterinarian; veterinary; veterinary surgeon (a doctor who practices veterinary medicine)

operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon (a physician who specializes in surgery)

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

primary care physician (the physician who provides primary care)

houseman; intern; interne; medical intern (an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience ('houseman' is a British term))

house physician; resident; resident physician (a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital)

hakeem; hakim (a Muslim physician)

general practitioner; GP (a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses)

gastroenterologist (a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract)

extern; medical extern (a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there)

angiologist (a physician who specializes in angiology)

allergist (a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies)

Instance hyponyms:

Harry F. Klinefelter; Harry Fitch Kleinfelter; Klinefelter (United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912))

Christiaan Eijkman; Eijkman (Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930))

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier; Lozier (United States physician who in 1863 founded a medical school for women (1813-1888))

Manson; Sir Patrick Manson (Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922))

Franz Anton Mesmer; Friedrich Anton Mesmer; Mesmer (Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815))

Paracelsus; Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus; Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541))

Peter Mark Roget; Roget (English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869))

Ross; Sir Ronald Ross (British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932))

Benjamin Rush; Rush (physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813))

Albert Schweitzer; Schweitzer (French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965))

Anna Howard Shaw; Shaw (United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919))

Simpson; Sir James Young Simpson (Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870))

English Hippocrates; Sydenham; Thomas Sydenham (English physician (1624-1689))

E. A. von Willebrand; Erik Adolf von Willebrand; Erik von Willebrand; von Willebrand; Willebrand (Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949))

Edward Jenner; Jenner (English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823))

Aletta Jacobs; Jacobs (Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929))

George Huntington; Huntington (United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea)

Hodgkin; Thomas Hodgkin (English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866))

Harvey; William Harvey (English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657))

Gilbert; William Gilbert (English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))

Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot; Fallot (French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911))

Down; John L. H. Down (English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896))

Burrill Bernard Crohn; Crohn (United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines; he was the first to describe regional ileitis which is now known as Crohn's disease (1884-1983))

Bruce; David Bruce; Sir David Bruce (Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931))

Bartholin; Caspar Bartholin (Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629))

Barany; Robert Barany (Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936))

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina; Avicenna; ibn-Sina (Persian physician and influential philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037))

Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd; Averroes; ibn-Roshd (Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198))

Holonyms ("physician" is a member of...):

doctor-patient relation (the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient)

 Context examples 

However, until researchers and physicians have better evidence for the effects of such measures in AKI and CKD, they are widely considered reasonable therapeutic approaches.

(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)

A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

(Oncologist, NCI Thesaurus)

Person under a physician's care for a particular disease or condition.

(Patient, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

In a quarter of an hour or so we were back at the physician’s house.

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

Older adults should follow the advice from their own physicians about daily aspirin use.

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

A health care facility where patients are admitted to get treatment provided by a group of physicians practicing medicine together.

(Clinic, NCI Thesaurus)

I have already observed that they are subject to no diseases, and therefore can have no need of physicians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The findings indicate that physicians need to take obesity into account when using these tests.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Because her physicians suspected she might have a primary immune deficiency — a genetic abnormality affecting her immune system — they performed a genetic analysis.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

It integrates information about clinical trials participation (including human subjects' protection), treatment advances, and related resources for patients and physicians.

(CancerTrials, NCI Thesaurus)