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physician

noun
/fəˈzɪʃən/US/fɪˈzɪʃn̩/UK

Etymology

From Middle English fisicien, from Old French fisicïen (“physician”) (modern French physicien (“physicist”)), from fisique (“art of healing”), from Latin physica (“natural science”), from Ancient Greek φυσική ἐπιστήμη (phusikḗ epistḗmē, “knowledge of nature”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “pertaining to nature”). Displaced native Middle English læche, leche, archaic English leech (“physician”). Morphologically physic + -ian.

  1. derived from φυσική ἐπιστήμη
  2. derived from physica
  3. derived from fisicïen
  4. inherited from fisicien

Definitions

  1. A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed…

    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.

    • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
    • The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.

  2. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

    • The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice[…].

The neighborhood

Derived

emergency physician, family physician, geophysician, interphysician, intraphysician, non-physician, nonphysician, physician assistant, physician associate, physiciancy, physicianed, physicianess, physician extender, physician finger, physician, heal thyself, physicianless, physicianlike, physicianly, physicianship

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at physician. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at physician. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at physician

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA