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1. the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 (noun.group)
hypernym | : | executive department, |
definition | : | a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States (noun.group) |
part holonym | : | bureau of the census, census bureau, |
definition | : | the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States (noun.group) |
part holonym | : | national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, |
definition | : | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather (noun.group) |
part holonym | : | technology administration, |
definition | : | an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth (noun.group) |
2. a licensed medical practitioner (noun.person)
hyponym | : | abortionist, |
definition | : | a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | allergist, |
definition | : | a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | angiologist, |
definition | : | a physician who specializes in angiology (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | extern, medical extern, |
definition | : | a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | gastroenterologist, |
definition | : | a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | general practitioner, gp, |
definition | : | a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | hakeem, hakim, |
definition | : | a Muslim physician (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | house physician, resident, resident physician, |
definition | : | a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | houseman, intern, interne, medical intern, |
definition | : | an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | quack, |
definition | : | an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | abu ali al-husain ibn abdallah ibn sina, avicenna, ibn-sina, |
definition | : | Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | barany, robert barany, |
definition | : | Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bartholin, caspar bartholin, |
definition | : | Danish physician who discovered Bartholin's gland (1585-1629) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bruce, david bruce, sir david bruce, |
definition | : | Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | burrill bernard crohn, crohn, |
definition | : | United States physician who specialized in diseases of the intestines; he was the first to describe regional ileitis which is now known as Crohn's disease (1884-1983) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | down, john l. h. down, |
definition | : | English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | christiaan eijkman, eijkman, |
definition | : | Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | etienne-louis arthur fallot, fallot, |
definition | : | French physician who described cardiac anomalies including Fallot's tetralogy (1850-1911) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gilbert, william gilbert, |
definition | : | English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harvey, william harvey, |
definition | : | English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hodgkin, thomas hodgkin, |
definition | : | English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | george huntington, huntington, |
definition | : | United States physician who first described Huntington's chorea (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aletta jacobs, jacobs, |
definition | : | Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edward jenner, jenner, |
definition | : | English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | manson, sir patrick manson, |
definition | : | Scottish physician who discovered that elephantiasis is spread by mosquitos and suggested that mosquitos also spread malaria (1844-1922) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | peter mark roget, roget, |
definition | : | English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ross, sir ronald ross, |
definition | : | British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | benjamin rush, rush, |
definition | : | physician and American Revolutionary leader; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1745-1813) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | albert schweitzer, schweitzer, |
definition | : | French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anna howard shaw, shaw, |
definition | : | United States physician and suffragist (1847-1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | simpson, sir james young simpson, |
definition | : | Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870) (noun.person) |
member meronym | : | doctor-patient relation, |
definition | : | the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient (noun.linkdef) |
derivation | : | doctor, |
definition | : | give medical treatment to (verb.body) |
derivation | : | doctoral, doctorial, |
definition | : | of or relating to a doctor or doctorate (adj.pert) |
derivation | : | doctor, |
definition | : | give medical treatment to (verb.body) |
derivation | : | doctoral, doctorial, |
definition | : | of or relating to a doctor or doctorate (adj.pert) |
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