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Meaning of चिकित्सक in English

  • A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
  • An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
  • One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
  • Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
  • The friar skate.
  • To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
  • To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
  • To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
  • To practice physic.
  • A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.
  • Medical.
  • One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
  • A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
  • Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.
  • One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.
  • One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

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