medical man
3
7.7
- noun
- Archaic
:
médico
- Professor Van Helsing, an eminent medical man, was called in to help treat Lucy's illness.
Examples
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I wouldn't envy the lot of any medical man giving evidence at that trial.
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My newborn son's first glimpse of this world: green masks, bright lights, medical men.
Fiction book (1995) -
Always good to have a medical man on, doc?
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Being a medical man, you should find it quite interesting.
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As a medical man, I have no explanation.
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Let's talk like two medical men.
Fiction book (2001) -
"As a medical man, he's absolutely wonderful."
Fiction book (1994) -
"A medical man finds that nothing is without a reason," he murmurs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Professor Van Helsing, an eminent medical man, is called in from Holland to help treat Lucy's illness.
Blog text (18) -
My newborn son's first glimpse of this world included green masks and bright lights with medical men attending to him.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A person who treats sick or injured people
∞
7.8
A person who treats sick or injured people
674
3.8
A doctor who finds what is wrong and treats sick or injured people
13
3.5
A doctor qualified to treat patients
7
2.7
A doctor who treats common illnesses and sends patients to specialists
5
3.7
A person trained to treat sick or injured people, like a doctor
1
8.3
A doctor who treats sick or hurt people
A person who is trained to treat people when they are sick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from its parts: 'medical' (relating to medicine) modifying 'man' (an adult male) yields a male person associated with medicine. Although the phrasing may be slightly old-fashioned or uncommon in modern usage, the compositional adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically transparent and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Medical man comes from an old, simple way of naming jobs: people put medical and man together to mean 'a man who treats the sick'. That's why in older writing it simply means 'a male doctor'.