doctor
English Thesaurus
1. children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | child's play, play, |
| definition | : | activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules (noun.act) |
2. a licensed medical practitioner (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | abortionist, |
| definition | : | a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | allergist, |
| definition | : | a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | angiologist, |
| definition | : | a physician who specializes in angiology (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | extern, medical extern, |
| definition | : | a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | gastroenterologist, |
| definition | : | a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | general practitioner, gp, |
| definition | : | a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | hakeem, hakim, |
| definition | : | a Muslim physician (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | house physician, resident, resident physician, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | houseman, intern, interne, medical intern, |
| definition | : | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | quack, |
| definition | : | an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | abu ali al-husain ibn abdallah ibn sina, avicenna, ibn-sina, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | barany, robert barany, |
| definition | : | Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bartholin, caspar bartholin, |
| definition | : | Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bruce, david bruce, sir david bruce, |
| definition | : | Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | burrill bernard crohn, crohn, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | down, john l. h. down, |
| definition | : | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | christiaan eijkman, eijkman, |
| definition | : | Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | etienne-louis arthur fallot, fallot, |
| definition | : | French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gilbert, william gilbert, |
| definition | : | English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | harvey, william harvey, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hodgkin, thomas hodgkin, |
| definition | : | English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | george huntington, huntington, |
| definition | : | United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | aletta jacobs, jacobs, |
| definition | : | Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | edward jenner, jenner, |
| definition | : | English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | manson, sir patrick manson, |
| definition | : | Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | peter mark roget, roget, |
| definition | : | English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ross, sir ronald ross, |
| definition | : | British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benjamin rush, rush, |
| definition | : | physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | albert schweitzer, schweitzer, |
| definition | : | French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | anna howard shaw, shaw, |
| definition | : | United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | simpson, sir james young simpson, |
| definition | : | Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870) (noun.person) |
| member meronym | : | doctor-patient relation, |
| definition | : | the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient (noun.linkdef) |
3. a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student, |
| definition | : | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines (noun.person) |
4. (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching (noun.person)
| instance hyponym | : | ambrose, saint ambrose, st. ambrose, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | augustine, augustine of hippo, saint augustine, st. augustine, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | baeda, beda, bede, saint baeda, saint beda, saint bede, st. baeda, st. beda, st. bede, the venerable bede, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | irenaeus, saint irenaeus, st. irenaeus, |
| definition | : | Greek theologian who was bishop of Lyons and an antiheretical writer; a saint and Doctor of the Church (circa 130-200) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john chrysostom, st. john chrysostom, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407) (noun.person) |
5. give medical treatment to (verb.body)
| hypernym | : | care for, treat, |
| definition | : | provide treatment for (verb.body) |
| hyponym | : | vet, |
| definition | : | provide veterinary care for (verb.body) |
| domain category | : | medicine, practice of medicine, |
| definition | : | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries (noun.act) |
6. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken (verb.change)
| hyponym | : | fiddle, tinker, |
| definition | : | try to fix or mend (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | fill, |
| definition | : | plug with a substance (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | patch, piece, |
| definition | : | repair by adding pieces (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | cobble, |
| definition | : | repair or mend (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | point, repoint, |
| definition | : | repair the joints of bricks (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | patch, patch up, |
| definition | : | mend by putting a patch on (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | resole, sole, |
| definition | : | put a new sole on (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | revamp, vamp, |
| definition | : | provide (a shoe) with a new vamp (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | heel, reheel, |
| definition | : | put a new heel on (verb.change) |
| hyponym | : | darn, |
| definition | : | repair by sewing (verb.contact) |
7. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive (verb.change)
| hypernym | : | adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch, |
| definition | : | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones (verb.change) |
8. a licensed medical practitioner (noun.person)
| derivation | : | doctor, |
| definition | : | give medical treatment to (verb.body) |
9. give medical treatment to (verb.body)
10. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken (verb.change)
| antonym | : | break, bust, |
| definition | : | ruin completely (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | restoration, |
| definition | : | some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed (noun.artifact) |
| derivation | : | fixer, mender, repairer, |
| definition | : | a skilled worker who mends or repairs things (noun.person) |
11. a licensed medical practitioner (noun.person)
| derivation | : | doctor, |
| definition | : | give medical treatment to (verb.body) |
12. give medical treatment to (verb.body)
13. restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken (verb.change)
| antonym | : | break, bust, |
| definition | : | ruin completely (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | restoration, |
| definition | : | some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed (noun.artifact) |
| derivation | : | fixer, mender, repairer, |
| definition | : | a skilled worker who mends or repairs things (noun.person) |
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