medical officer
15
3.7
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈɔfɪsər/
- Specialized
:
médico
- In all my years as a medical officer, I've never seen anything like it.
- chief medical officer
- veterinary medical officer
- medical officer of health
Prior to that, Doctor Perlin had been in effect, the Chief Medical Officer and lead for the entire VA healthcare system.
- Prior to that, Doctor Perlin had been in effect, the Chief Medical Officer and lead for the entire VA healthcare system.
- I'm delighted to be joined this evening by Brigadier Joe Fossey and by Jonathan Van Tam, the Deputy Chief Medical Officer.
- The prison Home Office minister, the the senior medical officer, he he wrote about it.
- And that's why Rex, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Tony Puopolo, oh, Paul Polo believe so strongly in what they're doing.
Examples
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Our medical officer.
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Your medical officer, Major Benford, will you select the men in best of health for journey to my country, where you will continue your duties on the soil of Japan.
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And I had a talk to his group medical officer too.
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Have the medical officer report to me... - ...at area command.
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Get all your wounded to the medical officer!
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Please report any infectious diseases to the medical officers.
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Your new medical officer.
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Right after medical school, more than 30 years ago, Rosling was a district medical officer in northern Mozambique.
Blog text (11) -
As senior medical officer on Triton, Switzer approved or disapproved everyone's fitness-for-duty status.
Fiction book (1994) -
During the training exercise, the medical officer ensured that all soldiers received proper care.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who treats sick or injured people
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7.8
A person who treats sick or injured people
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3.8
A doctor who finds what is wrong and treats sick or injured people
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3.5
A doctor qualified to treat patients
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3.7
A person trained to treat sick or injured people, like a doctor
3
7.7
A man who is a doctor often appears in old books or stories
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8.3
A doctor who treats sick or hurt people
A senior doctor who manages patient care and hospital duties
A person who is trained to treat people when they are sick
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'medical' (relating to medicine) with 'officer' (a person holding an official or military post): it denotes an officer responsible for medical services, typically a doctor in an institutional or military role. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English modifier + head noun structure, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Medical officer joins medical ('about health') and officer ('an official with rank'). Imagine a doctor in uniform who not only treats people but also has official duties to run medical services and give orders, so the phrase means 'a doctor who serves as an official responsible for medical services'.