MEDICAL PRACTITIONER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Someone who practices medicine

Synonyms:

medical man; medical practitioner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

caregiver; health care provider; health professional; PCP; primary care provider (a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability)

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

dental practitioner; dentist; tooth doctor (a person qualified to practice dentistry)

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

inoculator; vaccinator (a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases)

medic; medical officer (a medical practitioner in the armed forces)

Instance hyponyms:

Hippocrates (medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC))