Definition of physician
1 : a person skilled in the art of healing; specifically : one educated, clinically experienced, and licensed to practice medicine as usually distinguished from surgery
2 : one exerting a remedial or salutary influence
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Examples of physician in a Sentence
you should always consult a physician if you develop a high fever
Recent Examples of physician from the Web
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Salisbury steak was originally invented by an American physician, Dr. J. H. Salisbury, who died in 1905 and was an early proponent of a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss.
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The tip received by police was vague, but potentially dire: a Pennsylvania physician was on his way to the nation’s capital with a carload of weapons, planning to visit the president.
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The cost savings are expected to allow around $3 billion to be reinvested into the VA's Choice Card Program, which allows eligible veterans to make medical appointments with private-sector physicians at the expense of taxpayers.
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UC San Diego has recruited Dr. Jeremy Rich, a renowned Cleveland Clinic physician-scientist who grapples with the notoriously difficult problem of understanding and treating brain tumors.
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The agreement will mean adding around-the-clock critical care physicians for transplant patients at Jackson Memorial.
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The bespectacled physician, eugenicist and avowed white supremacist ran the state’s Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1912 until his retirement in 1946.
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The company closely tracked key details, such as the number of tests ordered by physicians in their core markets.
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Dr. Amy J. Reed, a physician and cancer patient who turned a personal calamity into a crusade to spare other women from the medical procedure that harmed her, died Wednesday night at her home in Yardley, Pa.
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Origin and Etymology of physician
Middle English phisicien, fisicien, from Anglo-French, from phisique medicine
First Known Use: 13th century
PHYSICIAN Defined for English Language Learners
physician
playDefinition of physician for English Language Learners
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: a medical doctor; especially : a medical doctor who is not a surgeon
PHYSICIAN Defined for Kids
physician
playDefinition of physician for Students
: a specialist in healing human disease : a doctor of medicine
Medical Dictionary
physician
playMedical Definition of physician
: a skilled health-care professional trained and licensed to practice medicine; specifically : a doctor of medicine or osteopathy
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