as in doctor
a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders
the wounded soldier called for a medic
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Recent Examples of medic
The pair were ultimately pronounced dead at the scene by medics, police said.
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Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Louisiana Pick from fun flavors like Sho-Nuff and Click-Clack Parm-a-medics.
—Matt Moore, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
Sharbs is a critical-care flight medic for the Guard.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Compassionate Venus squares cosmic medic Chiron, involving your 11th House of Connections and your 2nd House of Manifestation.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
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Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Louisiana Pick from fun flavors like Sho-Nuff and Click-Clack Parm-a-medics.
—Matt Moore, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
Sharbs is a critical-care flight medic for the Guard.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
Compassionate Venus squares cosmic medic Chiron, involving your 11th House of Connections and your 2nd House of Manifestation.
—Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medic
Noun
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Unlike with an infection, where doctors can use an objective blood test to pinpoint the bacteria or virus causing the problem, there are few simple tests to determine what kind of mental health disorder someone has.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Then, in the fifth century BCE, came the Greek doctor Hippocrates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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For nearly a millennia and half, even in the centuries when physicians were beginning to supplant priests in treating the ill, epileptic convulsions (unexpected, frightening, enigmatic) remained the territory of the priest.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Todd Randall Wilcox, a correctional health-care physician and the former president of the American College of Correctional Physicians, reviewed the medical records associated with Roque Campos’s hospital visits, as part of expert testimony for the class-action suit.—
Oren Peleg,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Medic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medic. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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