doctor

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. physician, surgeon; learned man, sage. See remedy.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A medical practitioner]

Syn. Doctor of Medicine, M.D., physician, surgeon, family doctor, country doctor, medical attendant, specialist, consultant, intern, resident, house physician, homeopath, primary-care physician, quack*, veterinarian, animal doctor, vet*, doc*, sawbones*, bones*, medico*, croaker*.

Types of doctors include: heart specialist; eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist; respiratory specialist, family doctor, general practitioner, G.P.; anesthetist, anesthesiologist, dentist, podiatrist, internist, pediatrician, neonatologist, oculist, obstetrician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, public health physician, surgeon, orthopedist, gynecologist, radiologist, neurologist, cardiologist, gerontologist, pathologist, dermatologist, endocrinologist, ophthalmologist, laryngologist, urologist, neurologist, osteopath, oncologist, gastroenterologist, allergist, proctologist, hematologist, diathermist, radiothermist; orthopedic surgeon, cardiac surgeon, heart surgeon, plastic surgeon; see dentist , medicine 3 . Alternates to a doctor include: physician's assistant, midwife, chiropractor, acupuncturist, health-care provider, therapist, Christian Science practitioner, faith healer, witch doctor, shaman, medicine man.

2. [A holder of a doctoral degree]

Syn. Ph.D., Ed.D., expert, professor, student; see also degree 3 , professor , scholar 2 , scientist .

v.

1. [[To treat]

Syn. attend, minister to, medicate; see treat 3 .

2. [To change deceptively]

Syn. tamper with, falsify, adulterate, alter; see adulterate , corrupt 2 , disguise .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

physician, medical practitioner, M.D., general practitioner, osteopath, homeopath, medic, intern, specialist, resident, medicine man, healer, *doc, *pill pusher, *bones, *sawbones, *quack, witch doctor. ''An angel when he comes to cure, a devil when he asks for pay.''—English proverb. ''Death's pilot-fish.''—G.D. Prentice. ''The flower of our civilization.''—Robert Louis Stevenson.

WORD FIND

• ambulance attendant: paramedic, emergency medical technician (EMT)

• anesthesia administrator: anesthetist, anesthesiologist

• animals: veterinarian

• association: American Medical Association, AMA

• bone, joint and muscle specialist: orthopedist

• children’s: pediatrician

• digestive system: gastroenterologist

• disease authority: pathologist

• drug authority: pharmacologist

• ear, nose and throat specialist: otolaryngologist

• epidemic authority: epidemiologist

• eye: ophthalmologist

• feeling patient’s body with hands to aid diagnosis: palpation

• foot: podiatrist

• heart: cardiologist

• hormone specialist: endocrinologist

• knee hammer: percussor

• listening for body sounds through stethoscope: auscultation

• manipulator of bones and spine: chiropractor

• medical examiner: coroner

• mental disorders: psychiatrist

• national health chief: Surgeon General

• nervous system: neurologist

• newborns: neonatologist

• oath of: Hippocratic oath

• prayer, cures by: faith healer

• pregnancy and birth: obstetrician

• radiology: radiologist

• rectum, anus: proctologist

• skin: dermatologist

• tapping chest, back, abdomen, aid in diagnosis: percussion

• trainee: intern

• tumor specialist: oncologist

• urinary tract, kidneys, prostate: urologist

• women’s reproductive system: gynecologist

see disease, hospital, medicine, nurse, operation, surgery

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v.

1. mend fix, treat, repair, attend, nurse, medicate, *patch up.

2. alter tamper with, falsify, change, distort, adulterate.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. Informal. To give medical aid to: treat. See HEALTH, HELP. 2. To restore to proper condition or functioning: fix, fix up, mend, overhaul, patch, repair1, revamp, right. Idiom: set right. See HELP. 3. To impart a false character to (something) by alteration: fabricate, fake, falsify, fictionalize, Actionize. See TRUE. 4. To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances: adulterate, debase, load, sophisticate. See CLEAN.