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physician:
(plural: ‘physicians‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘phy’ are said with an ‘f’ sound as in “fill”; please listen to the video you see on the right of this text for the right pronunciation of the word)
a physician on duty
a medical doctor;
a medical doctor who cures diseases by giving medicine — prescribing tablets, syrup, injections, etc.;
any person who cures the diseases of people,
e.g.
My physician advised me to take complete bed rest.
Physicians treat patients by giving suitable medicine and surgeons cut open the body to set right the damaged parts in a patient’s body.
a physician (R) checking the BP of her patient (L)
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