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    MEDICAL PRACTITIONER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Someone who practices medicineplay

    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))

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