Definitions
a licensed medical practitioner
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates promoted wine for various purposes, including reducing fevers and dressing wounds.”
“The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice[…].”
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