| medicolegal | | |
| adj. (pertain) | 1. medicolegal | pertaining to legal aspects of the practice of medicine (as malpractice or patient consent for operations or patient information). |
| medico | | |
| n. (person) | 1. medical student, medico | a student in medical school. |
| ~ educatee, pupil, student | a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution. |
| n. (person) | 2. doc, doctor, dr., md, medico, physician | a licensed medical practitioner.; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" |
| ~ abortionist | a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies. |
| ~ allergist | a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies. |
| ~ angiologist | a physician who specializes in angiology. |
| ~ extern, medical extern | a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there. |
| ~ gastroenterologist | a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. |
| ~ general practitioner, gp | a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses. |
| ~ hakeem, hakim | a Muslim physician. |
| ~ house physician, resident physician, resident | 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.; "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital" |
| ~ houseman, intern, interne, medical intern | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term). |
| ~ medical man, medical practitioner | someone who practices medicine. |
| ~ primary care physician | the physician who provides primary care.; "the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system" |
| ~ quack | an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice. |
| ~ medical specialist, specialist | practices one branch of medicine. |
| ~ operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon | a physician who specializes in surgery. |
| ~ vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon | a doctor who practices veterinary medicine. |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ abu ali al-husain ibn abdallah ibn sina, avicenna, ibn-sina | Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037). |
| ~ barany, robert barany | Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936). |
| ~ bartholin, caspar bartholin | Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629). |
| ~ bruce, david bruce, sir david bruce | Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931). |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ john l. h. down, down | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896). |
| ~ christiaan eijkman, eijkman | Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930). |
| ~ etienne-louis arthur fallot, fallot | French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911). |
| ~ william gilbert, gilbert | English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603). |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ hodgkin, thomas hodgkin | English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866). |
| ~ george huntington, huntington | United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea. |
| ~ aletta jacobs, jacobs | Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929). |
| ~ edward jenner, jenner | English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823). |
| ~ harry f. klinefelter, harry fitch kleinfelter, klinefelter | United States physician who first described the XXY-syndrome (born in 1912). |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ sir ronald ross, 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). |
| ~ sir james young simpson, 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). |
| ~ doctor-patient relation | the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient. |
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