From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wp]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en] (modern [fr]), from [fro], from [en], from [en], from
[grc]. Displaced native [enm], archaic [en]. Morphologically [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A practitioner of physic , i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon ; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery .
2. * [II]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. A medical doctor trained in human medicine .
6. * [text=The doctor had to go to London for a PHYSICIAN to take charge of his practice [nb...] .]
**** Usage notes
- In the United Kingdom and [Commonwealth of Nations] countries, a physician holds a postgraduate degree such as _Master of General Medicine_ or fellowship certificate such as MRCP or FRCP from the [Royal College of Physicians] in UK, or the [Royal Australasian College of Physicians] in Australia and New Zealand. Contrarily, in the United States, the term is frequently regulated by state laws, and in all states includes those with the [Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine] (D.O.) degree (not to be confused with osteopath s), the [Doctor of Medicine] (M.D.) degree, and in some states those with the D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) degree (who are neither medical doctors nor part of [Allied health professions] ).
**** Derived terms
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**** Related terms
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**** Translations
[medical doctor]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Akan: [ak]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Dusun: [dtp]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny] , [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Cornish: [kw] , [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm] , [dlm]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl] [formal]
- Dzongkha: [dz]
- Egyptian: [zjnw]
- Emilian: [egl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Ewe: [ee] , [ee]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he] , [he] [colloquial, while addressing a doctor]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io] , [io] [male] , [io] [female]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] [when addressing]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kamba: [kam]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Kikuyu: [ki]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad] , [lad]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Luhya: [luy] , [luy]
- Luo: [luo]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms] [Malaysia, Singapore] , [ms] [Indonesia incl. Riau] , [ms] [Southern Thailand] , [ms] [limited]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Maricopa: [mrc]
- Martuthunira: [vma]
- Meru: [mer]
- Mongolian:
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne] [formal]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Northern Mansi: [mns-nor] [mns-nor]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Okinawan: [ryu]
- Old English: [ang]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pali: [pi]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps] , [ps] , [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa] , [fa] , [fa] [archaic]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt] , [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm]
- Russian: [ru] [both male and female] , [ru] [colloquial, nonstandard] , [ru] [both male and female] , [ru] [colloquial for female doctors, nonstandard] , [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa] , [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si] , [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tangsa: [nst]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tswana: [tn]
- Tumbuka: [tum]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] , [dialectal] [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Unami: [unm]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] [male] , [vo] [obsolete] , [vo] [obsolete]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa] [old]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yámana: [yag]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Zhuang: [za]
- Zulu: [modern doctor] [zu] , [zu] , [traditional doctor] [zu] , [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[a female medical doctor]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Asturian: [ast]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[en]